Maretti

Barolo

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  Vintage 2016
  95 points www.wineorbit.co.nz

Immensely complex and engaging, the wine shows dried cherry, leather, dark spice and smoked game characters on the nose. It's concentrated and powerful, yet refined and sophisticated, with layers of fine texture and grainy tannins. Classically styled and structured with an impressively long firm finish.

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  Vintage 2016
  93 points The Wine Front

A new wine for Maretti, and I see it’s bottled by Terre del Barolo, who have quite a few vineyard sources, to say the least. Anyway, a pretty good vintage to choose, for launching a new wine. Traditional style, more or less, rich in dark cherry, with sage, mint, and new leather, and some aniseed and cocoa. Full-bodied, slightly meaty and rustic, but in a good way, ripe suede-like tannin, earthy, freshness with power, and a mesh of dry tannin and dried herb laced dark fruit on a finish of solid length. It’s already quite approachable, but should do well over the medium term. Value is excellent.