Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo is a red grape popular in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy, where it can produce some of the world’s best wines in Barolo and Barbaresco. Common characteristics are notes of roses, red berries, licorice and tar, and are frequently tightly structured with high acidity and assertive tannins. You can use Wine Enthusiast’s online Buying Guide to find the top-rated Nebbiolo among our extensive Nebbiolo wine reviews and easy-to-use database. Our Nebbiolo reviews will give you a general idea what to expect from wines made from Nebbiolo, and will help you find one that best suits your needs.

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Gaja 2007 Sorì San Lorenzo Nebbiolo (Langhe)

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Price $440

Always a standout among Gaja’s five single-vineyard wines, Sorì San Lorenzo benefits from an excellent vintage to produce what will surely become a must-have bottle for collectors of Italian wine. There’s enormous beauty and elegance here, backed by power and intensity with ripe fruit, spice, toasted nut and cola. It also shows impressive linearity and focus. Hold… — M.L. (5/1/2011)

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Gaja 2007 Sorì Tildin Nebbiolo (Langhe)

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Price $440

This is an elegant Nebbiolo-based wine and arguably the most feminine of Gaja’s newest releases. There’s extreme balance and sophistication evident in the focused aromas of wild berry, white licorice, pressed violets and polished stone. The mouthfeel is tight, firm and those tannins need at least 10 more years to soften in your cellar. Beautiful. — M.L. (5/1/2011)

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Gaja 2006 Sperss Nebbiolo (Langhe)

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Price $255

Sperss (the name is inspired by the local word for “nostalgia”) is a vineyard located in the Barolo territory of Serralunga. Angelo Gaja adds 6% Barbera to the wine for brightness and freshness but the overall ensemble shows so much more than that. It delivers sophisticated softness and a velvety texture that is backed by exotic spice and loads of wild berry and… — M.L. (5/1/2011)

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Vietti 2006 Brunate Nebbiolo (Barolo)

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Price $130

Bravo! The Brunate cru has awarded Vietti with a stellar product: a wine that is unusually dark and plush with impressive intensity and crafted aromas of black fruit, spice, earth, licorice, balsam and gianduia chocolate-hazelnut spread. The soft, velvety texture is seductively delicious and the wine will age many long, glorious years. — M.L. (12/1/2010)

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Gaja 2007 Nebbiolo (Barbaresco)

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Price $210

This is the wine that made Angelo Gaja a household name worldwide. Made according to Barbaresco tradition, the wine reveals itself slowly at first and doles out small aromas of wild berry, licorice, root beer, smoke and graphite that become magically more intense with time in the glass. The acidity, tannic factor and overall sophistication show harmony and… — M.L. (5/1/2011)

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Gaja 2006 Conteisa Nebbiolo (Langhe)

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Price $215

Conteisa is a Barolo-inspired wine from Angelo Gaja (with 8% Barbera) that opens with very attractive and approachable aromas of red fruit, tobacco, leather, moist earth and black licorice. There’s a youthful element to the personality (that hints at a long aging future ahead) backed by silky, but firm tannins and beautifully crisp acidity. The wine will be at its… — M.L. (5/1/2011)

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Rivetto 2004 Riserva Nebbiolo (Barolo)

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Wow: simply wonderful! This wine will blow you away on all levels. The intensity, the quality of the mouthfeel, the fine focus of the fruit and spice aromas and its long persistency are stratospheric. It’s a dark, brooding expression of Nebbiolo with enough of an aromatic motor to carry it forward many years, if not decades of cellar aging. The Rivetto family has… — M.L. (12/1/2010)

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Sandrone 2001 Cannubi Boschis Nebbiolo (Barolo)

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Price $135

Absolutely lovely. It starts off dense and tarry on the nose, with plum and chocolate fudge scents, then adds layers of bright floral and cherry notes with airing, while the palate is a whirl of mouthcoating flavors that never seem hamhanded despite the great intensity. Finishes with wonderfully plush tannins, making this approachable now, yet capable of evolving… — J.C. (3/1/2006)

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