Luigi Baudana Barolo 2019

2019 Barolo Baudana 96VM
Luigi Baudana
Barolo, Piemonte


96 pts Vinous (Galloni)
The 2019 Barolo Baudana is absolutely captivating. Effusive and bright in the glass, with tons of freshness and remarkable fruit purity, the Baudana offers up generous dark red fruit, spice, leather, kirsch, hard candy, cedar, tobacco and underbrush. There's terrific depth here and exceptional balance, too. Rose petal, white pepper and chalk lift the high-toned, intensely saline finish.

• 1.6ha of Baudana, SW-facing at 350m
• Vines planted in 1960, 59 years-old
• Fermentation in open-top wood vats with manual punchdowns
• Macerations with submerged cap lasted 45 days
• Aging was in neutral 1500L, 1700L, and 2500L Slavonian oak botti, for 30 months