- 100% Nebbiolo harvested from the Aborina vineyard in La Morra
- Vineyard planted in 1948 to calcareous clay and sand soils
- Altare hand de-stems each berry for this special bottling “one by one” (“unoperuno”)
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2019
Country:
Italy
Region:
Piedmont
Appellation:
Barolo
Variety:
Nebbiolo
Color:
Red
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | IT-ALT-41-19 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
Score
95
Date
2023-07-28
"A crunchy and bright Barolo with orange, flower, and crab apple aromas and flavors. Medium body. Very crunchy and fresh. Fine and polished tannins. Bright and yummy already. But give this time to develop in the bottle. This is hand de-stemmed. Better after 2025."
Jancis Robinson
Score
17.5
Date
2023-01-13
"Just mid ruby. Deeper and more layered than the straight Barolo and a little more closed. Raspberry along with the fragrance of cardamon. Still youthful and compact and with an endless finish. Very elegant and very tannic, but beautifully precise. (WS)Drink 2026 † 2038"
Vinous
Score
95
Date
2023-01-10
"The 2019 Barolo Unoperuno is a wine of total class and elegance. Bright and translucent, with compelling inner sweetness, the 2019 is flat-out gorgeous. Crushed red berry fruit, orange zest, cedar and sweet pipe tobacco are all finely delineated. There's terrific energy and verge here. Give this a few years to come together ."
Wine Advocate
Score
97
Date
2023-08-24
"Made with a bend of fruit from Arborina (in La Morra), Cannubi (in Barolo) and Badarina and Ceretta (in Serralunga d'Alba), Silvia Altare calls her 2019 Barolo Unoperuno a super mega blend of classic single-vineyard sites. The berries are hand selected in the most excruciating manner to avoid all stems, leaves, ugly berries, bugs and so forth. Indeed, unoperuno means one by one in Italian, and that gives you an idea of the exacting work required to make this very limited-production wine (with about 1,200 bottles released annually in the fall). Everyone is moving toward stem inclusion, Silvia tells me: We are moving in the opposite direction. These results are softly elegant with ripe tannins and lots of dark fruit and black cherry at the back. There are mild mineral tones and a hint of earth or rust."
Wine Spectator
Score
95
Date
2023-08-23
"A beam of cherry highlights this supple red, along with iron and wet hay flavors, plus a touch of eucalyptus. The texture is impressive, until the tannins flex their muscles. Firm yet open, with a lingering finish. Best from 2025 through 2042. ‡B.S."