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Oddero's wines display a combination of tradition with a dash of polish, with moderately long extraction times of around 25 days. Aging is in 2000L French oak barrels for around 2.5 years in the single vineyard wines.
Vigna Rionda is widely considered to be a "grand cru" of Barolo, even the "grand cru" of the Serralunga zone. They feature a powerful fruit weight with an equally powerful structure of inner acidity and tannic cut that can need an extra few years to mellow. Along with the juicy red fruits like strawberry and cherry, Vigna Riondas have a strong dark-toned side, with spice like licorice, and warm balsam notes yield a brooding tar-and-roses experience with age. Typical drinking windows start 8-10 years from vintage. 2015 was a great vintage for generous, expressive wines at an earlier point, so this is great to drink starting now! Just let it open up in the decanter for a couple hours and expreience the magic of this site.
DECANTER 97 POINTS - "It's not always easy to describe the intoxicating complexity and elegance of Vignarionda in Serralunga d'Alba. The vibrancy of earthy strawberry, which becomes richer cherry on the palate, the fresh rose and violet weaving, the spiciness among a touch of tar, liquorice stick and smoky woodland, with wax and balsamic tones peeping out of the depth. On the palate this vintage shines with watermelon flavours, firm grainy tannins and lifted acidity over the supple fruit, and all with an incredibly elegant length. Outstanding."
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "Here's a wild ride back in time. The spectacular Oddero 2015 Barolo Riserva Vignarionda opens to magnificent intensity and an impressive level of no-holds-barred openness or generosity. You can age the wine further, but honestly, it tastes beautiful right now. The 2015 vintage carries a lot of extra fruit weight and shows broad shoulders. That supportive textural richness gives rise to dark fruit, dried blackberry, cured tobacco and candied chestnut. The bouquet is an infusion of fruit complexity and budding evolution. This is a bottle you could cozy up to sometime during the chilly winter months." Drink Now Through 2048 - Monica Larner
The origins for Cantine e Poderi Oddero go back at least to the 1800s when family members were documented as making wine in the town of La Morra. By 1878, they had their estate bottling, and the by the end of that century, small barrels were being sold to the Americas. The modern winery was shaped by Giacomo Oddero who renovated things in the 1950s, who served officially in guiding Piedmont's agricultural products through the formation of regulations. This is a family who is deeply rooted in the area's agriculture!
Today, Giacomo's daughter, Mariacristina is clearly continuing to make benchmark wines of the Langhe region! The estate's vineyards are spread out, from the Barolo/La Morra slope's Brunate vineyard to Serralunga's "Grand Cru" of Vigna Rionda.
Oddero's wines display a combination of tradition with a dash of polish, with moderately long extraction times of around 25 days. Aging is in 2000L French oak barrels for around 2.5 years in the single vineyard wines.
Vigna Rionda is widely considered to be a "grand cru" of Barolo, even the "grand cru" of the Serralunga zone. They feature a powerful fruit weight with an equally powerful structure of inner acidity and tannic cut that can need an extra few years to mellow. Along with the juicy red fruits like strawberry and cherry, Vigna Riondas have a strong dark-toned side, with spice like licorice, and warm balsam notes yield a brooding tar-and-roses experience with age. Typical drinking windows start 8-10 years from vintage. 2015 was a great vintage for generous, expressive wines at an earlier point, so this is great to drink starting now! Just let it open up in the decanter for a couple hours and expreience the magic of this site.
DECANTER 97 POINTS - "It's not always easy to describe the intoxicating complexity and elegance of Vignarionda in Serralunga d'Alba. The vibrancy of earthy strawberry, which becomes richer cherry on the palate, the fresh rose and violet weaving, the spiciness among a touch of tar, liquorice stick and smoky woodland, with wax and balsamic tones peeping out of the depth. On the palate this vintage shines with watermelon flavours, firm grainy tannins and lifted acidity over the supple fruit, and all with an incredibly elegant length. Outstanding."
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "Here's a wild ride back in time. The spectacular Oddero 2015 Barolo Riserva Vignarionda opens to magnificent intensity and an impressive level of no-holds-barred openness or generosity. You can age the wine further, but honestly, it tastes beautiful right now. The 2015 vintage carries a lot of extra fruit weight and shows broad shoulders. That supportive textural richness gives rise to dark fruit, dried blackberry, cured tobacco and candied chestnut. The bouquet is an infusion of fruit complexity and budding evolution. This is a bottle you could cozy up to sometime during the chilly winter months." Drink Now Through 2048 - Monica Larner
The origins for Cantine e Poderi Oddero go back at least to the 1800s when family members were documented as making wine in the town of La Morra. By 1878, they had their estate bottling, and the by the end of that century, small barrels were being sold to the Americas. The modern winery was shaped by Giacomo Oddero who renovated things in the 1950s, who served officially in guiding Piedmont's agricultural products through the formation of regulations. This is a family who is deeply rooted in the area's agriculture!
Today, Giacomo's daughter, Mariacristina is clearly continuing to make benchmark wines of the Langhe region! The estate's vineyards are spread out, from the Barolo/La Morra slope's Brunate vineyard to Serralunga's "Grand Cru" of Vigna Rionda.
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