Azelia Barolo Cerretta 2019

James Suckling
94/100 punten
Perfumed with sliced raspberries, violets and strawberries as well as hints of orange. It’s medium-bodied with firm and fresh tannins that are chewy. Bright acidity. Energetic wine. Drink after 2027.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
96/100 punten
Cerretta is one of my favorite sites in Serralunga d'Alba because it consists of vines wrapped around a hilltop with various exposures. For that reason, Cerretta wines can vary widely from producer to producer. The Azelia 2019 Barolo Cerretta has dark fruit and spice, but the bouquet is mostly colored by flinty mineral tones, smoke and pencil shaving. It offers terrific balance and also manages some softly perfumed notes of violet and blue flower that you don't get in the other wines. It sees 50 days of extended maceration and 30 months of aging in large oak casks. This is a very limited production of 3,200 bottles.

I tasted six Barolos from Luigi Scavino's Azelia: five from 2019 and a Riserva from 2013. The Riserva is a special wine that sees an outstanding five years of aging in oak casks and another five years in bottle before its commercial release. The vines range from 95 to 120 years old.

Jancis Robinson
17.5/20 punten
Serralunga d’Alba. Youthful ruby. Crushed stones, savoury spice and a hint of leather, while still closed on the fruit. Concentrated palate that is lively with lots of juicy red fruit and bags of coating tannins. Fantastic balance and great purity of fruit on the finish but needs more time. (WS)