Pio Cesare - Barolo 2010 (750ml)
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
"The 2010 Barolo is a great fall back wine for those who want to know the flavor profile of a classic well-made Barolo. This is a textbook wine especially in the exceptional 2010 vintage. Black fruit and prune is folded together with delicate tones of cigar ash crushed mineral licorice white truffle and dried raspberry. The tannins are firm but polished and the wine leaves a lasting imprint of dark fruit and cola on the elegant finish."
James Suckling: 94 Points
"A fascinating aromas of crushed berries flowers and light hazelnut. Roses. Violets. Full bodied and super structured with wonderful length and powerful. So much depth to this. Incredible. Savory. Better in 2016 but hard not to drink it."
Vinous: 93 Points
"Pio Cesare's 2010 Barolo is terrific. Dark red cherries plums lavender smoke and savory herbs open up in the glass followed by hints of orange peel and white pepper that add both lift and a hugely appealing element of exoticism. The firm incisive tannins are going to need a few years to settle down. There is a lot to like in this classic old-school leaning Barolo. The 2010 was made from less well-exposed parcels in Ornato along with parcels in Collareto and Briccolina both of which are in the same general area of Serralunga plus dollops of fruit from La Morra and Grinzane Cavour virtually all of it estate fruit."
