Description
92+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): “The 2022 Barbaresco Normale from the Rocca family’s lovely La Ca’Növa estate is a beautifully classic example of Barbaresco, hailing from limestone-rich soils, fermented with native yeasts, given a thirty day maceration period and raised in classic botti prior to bottling. The wine shows the style of the 2022 vintage, coming in at 14.5 percent octane and delivering a very deep, pure and complex bouquet of red and black cherries, anise, woodsmoke, a lovely base of chalky soil, rose petals and a touch of red curry in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a gorgeous core of fruit, tangy acids, chewy, well-integrated tannins and superb length and grip on the precise and very nicely balanced finish. As I have mentioned before, the 2022 vintage is a drought vintage and has produced concentrated, tannic wines that will be long-distance runners and demand plenty of cellaring to soften up. But, once they are ready to drink, they will be beautiful wines and have a very long plateau of peak drinkability. 2045-2100.
