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2019 Barbaresco Roncaglie, Poderi Colla
£210.00 per 6 Bot Case, in bond
£256.07 Duty & VAT paid
The colour is that unmistakable pale red brick so typical of Nebbiolo. There’s plenty of energy on the nose. Elegant rose petal perfume mingles with poignant fresh ginger, orange zest, nutmeg, cinnamon, and a dash of hoisin. The palate is full and bold, with rich layers of ripe summer strawberry and red cherry, slowly fading to leave rosewater, lavender, and violet. A long mineral streak provides definition from start to very long finish. The tannins are impressively fine-grained yet, together with mouth-watering acidity, provide a firm structure that will benefit from extended cellaring. This is a succulent and moreish drop already but has the capacity to improve for a good twenty years. Faultlessly harmonious and effortlessly elegant; it’s too good to miss. 2024-2042
Simon Quinn, VinQuinn Ltd
Barbaresco. Palish ruby. Embryonic, tight nose with savoury minerally hints and just a shimmer of red fruit. A core of sweet raspberry fruit framed by firm, ripe and polished tannins. Spectacular tannic structure that is totally captivating and with youthful, focused red fruit. 2024-2036
18+ points Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com
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The Vintage:
In the last couple of months I tasted my way through quite a few 2019 Barbaresco samples that were so good that it seems 2019 could be in the same league as the outstanding 2010 and 2016 vintages... Elegance is the key word in understanding the 2019 Barbaresco vintage, which continues along the stylistic road embarked on back in 2016 in a most convincing way. If consistently high quality throughout is a characteristic of a truly great vintage, 2019 has this in spades.
- Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com (subscribers can read the full article here)
So far, I have only tasted a small selection of 2019s. Those wines point to an extremely promising vintage. The 2019s are deep, layered Barbarescos that show the heights of what is possible here. The growing season was marked by two heat events in late June and early July that helped fill out the wines, but not to excess, while the end of the year was pretty much textbook, with good diurnal shifts leading to a late harvest. It is too early to have a complete view of the vintage, but the lack of adverse weather shocks combined with the presence of favorable weather throughout the year, plus the strength of the wines I have tasted, all lead me to be extremely optimistic about the 2019s.
- Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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For some reason, Poderi Colla remains under the radar relative to their peers despite having made a number of superb wines in recent
vintages. Perhaps the winery location, just outside of Alba, explains that. I am not really sure. As for the wines, they are fabulous expressions of traditionally crafted Barbaresco and Barolo. - Antonio Galloni, October 2020
Poderi Colla is about understatement and class. Rarely showy or flamboyant, the wines have a self-assuredness that is the result of many decades of experience working with some of the best vineyard sites in Piedmont. The estate is located in San Rocco Seno d'Elvio, just outside Alba, but the vineyard holdings are scattered across a wider perimeter that encompasses Barbaresco and Monforte. - Antonio Galloni, December 2015
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