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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.
This small, famous strip of vines lies on the ridge of Castiglione Falletto, with the sandy soils of a Diano sandstone outcropping. Along with a relatively cool southeast exposure, these are elegant Barolos, midweight and aromatic, which can show an enthralling tension between their intense-but-lean fruit and their fine-boned structure of lifting acidity and fine, softly embracing tannins. It's best to let these components loosen up a bit with bottle age. Drinking windows start 6-8 years from vintage.
VINOUS 96 POINTS - "The 2019 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione offers a striking combination of Rocche sweetness and the natural tension of the year. Hard candy, lavender, rose petal, mint, orange peel and licorice fill out the mid-palate nicely. Medium in body and nervy, the Rocche is shaping up to be a jewel of a wine. But it needs time." Drinking Window: 2025-2044. - ANTONIO GALLONI
KERIN O'KEEFE 95 POINTS - "Aromas of forest floor, blue flower, ripe berry and spice appear in the glass along with a hint of camphor. Elegant and focused, the savory, austere palate offers Morello cherry, wild strawberry, star anise and a hint of espresso alongside tightly woven, refined tannins. Fresh acidity keeps it balanced... Abv: 14% Kerin O’Keefe May 2023 ©kerinokeefe.com"
"Rocche di Castiglione is a beautiful narrow vineyard on top of the “Rocche”, whose meaning is “cliffs”. The original rock is extremely close to the surface, the sedimentary soil is not deep, instead, it is thin and loose. During the warmest seasons, the plants really suffer for water shortage." - WINERY NOTES
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.
This small, famous strip of vines lies on the ridge of Castiglione Falletto, with the sandy soils of a Diano sandstone outcropping. Along with a relatively cool southeast exposure, these are elegant Barolos, midweight and aromatic, which can show an enthralling tension between their intense-but-lean fruit and their fine-boned structure of lifting acidity and fine, softly embracing tannins. It's best to let these components loosen up a bit with bottle age. Drinking windows start 6-8 years from vintage.
VINOUS 96 POINTS - "The 2019 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione offers a striking combination of Rocche sweetness and the natural tension of the year. Hard candy, lavender, rose petal, mint, orange peel and licorice fill out the mid-palate nicely. Medium in body and nervy, the Rocche is shaping up to be a jewel of a wine. But it needs time." Drinking Window: 2025-2044. - ANTONIO GALLONI
KERIN O'KEEFE 95 POINTS - "Aromas of forest floor, blue flower, ripe berry and spice appear in the glass along with a hint of camphor. Elegant and focused, the savory, austere palate offers Morello cherry, wild strawberry, star anise and a hint of espresso alongside tightly woven, refined tannins. Fresh acidity keeps it balanced... Abv: 14% Kerin O’Keefe May 2023 ©kerinokeefe.com"
"Rocche di Castiglione is a beautiful narrow vineyard on top of the “Rocche”, whose meaning is “cliffs”. The original rock is extremely close to the surface, the sedimentary soil is not deep, instead, it is thin and loose. During the warmest seasons, the plants really suffer for water shortage." - WINERY NOTES
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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