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2001 Brovia Barolo Rocche

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Year: 2001 Appellation: Piedmont Wine Advocate: 91 International Wine Cellar: 92-93	$54.99
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The 2001 Barolo Rocche is the most accessible of the single-vineyard Barolos I tasted. A dark translucent ruby, it offers a gorgeous, perfumed nose of roses, sweet fruit and minerals, along with bright red cherry fruit on a classic, mid-weight frame with great length and fine, elegant tannins. A beautiful wine that captures the essence of this terroir, Brovia’s Rocche will benefit from a few years of bottle age and should last until age 20. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2021. Wine Advocate 91

Good full red. Reticent nose hints at roasted, liqueur-like red fruits, lifted by notes of licorice and mint. Then bright, spicy and firmly built, with high-pitched dark berry, cocoa powder and menthol flavors and a fine-grained tex ture. More primary and austere-not to mention much more classic-than the 2000. According to Elena, this vineyard's finer, sand-based soils are particularly sensitive to vintage variation, and 2001 benefited from some well-timed precipitation in late summer. But although the Rocche is quite variable according to vintage and can lack color in average years, with aging the differences shrink, Elena maintains. IWC 92-93