95pts Vinous
Drinking Window 2027 - 2040
The 2020 Barolo Ginestra is another terrific wine from Diego Conterno. Rich, ample and bombastic, the 2020 saturates the palate with a heady mix of blackberry, chocolate, spice, leather, licorice and incense. There’s a lot of fruit and overall intensity, yet the typically potent Ginestra tannins are nicely tamed. I would give this a few years in bottle to shed some of its baby fat. This is a seriously impressive wine.
- By Antonio Galloni on September 2024
I was deeply impressed with the 2020 Barolos from Diego Conterno. If anything, the two more ‘modest’ wines in the range are the most interesting because they both overdeliver, while the vineyard-designates are important Barolos, as they should be. In the 2020s, I see notable depth married to a feeling of dynamic energy that satisfies both intellectual and hedonistic desires. These typically firm, classically built Barolos can be a bit forbidding young. The 2020s are not quite as tannic as most Barolos here have been in the past, but they do have quite a bit of baby fat. That will melt away with time in bottle for those who prefer greater subtlety rather than what the wines have to offer today.