Elvio Cogno's 2016 Barolo reveals layered dark plum and cherry with an ethereal transparency, its tannins so finely woven they've begun to melt into the structure. This is serious Nebbiolo with the patience to reward cellaring, but the integration is already singing. A beautiful argument for why Barolo doesn't need to shout.
Winemaker Notes
A layered and transparent red with dark-plum, peach and cherry aromas and flavors. It’s full and wonderfully integrated with excellent tannins that melt into the wine. Needs at least four or five years to open. A beautiful Barolo for the cellar. Drink after 2023.
Professional Ratings
96
Wine EnthusiastTasted: Sep 2020. Rose, woodland berry and baking spice shape the nose along with crushed mint notes on this fragrant red. The savory, polished palate boasts succulent raspberry, ripe strawberry and white pepper before taut tannins and bright acidity reveal a firm, elegant structure. Star anise lingers on the finish. Drink 2023–2036. Kerin O’Keefe
95
James SucklingTasted: Dec 2020. A layered and transparent red with dark-plum, peach and cherry aromas and flavors. It’s full and wonderfully integrated with excellent tannins that melt into the wine. Needs at least four or five years to open. A beautiful Barolo for the cellar. Drink after 2023.
93
Wine Spectator
92
Jancis Robinson
About the Producer
The Cogno family has been making wine for four generations in Piedmont. In 1990, Elvio Cogno left a long and fruitful partnership with the venerable Barolo producer Marcarini in La Morra and bought a splendid, historic 18th-century farmhouse on the top of Bricco Ravera, a hill near Novello in the Langhe area. For the next 20 years, he devoted himself to the winemaking traditions handed down to him by his father and grandfather. Elvio, in turn, has now passed the torch to his daughter, Nadia, and her husband, Valter Fissore, who had worked beside Elvio for 25 years.
