Roberto Voerzio, Barolo, La Serra

My Wine of the Night, and it wasn’t even a fair fight. This is a Barolo with a French passport. It’s lean, it’s slightly austere, and it carries itself with the kind of quiet arrogance that says, "I don't have to prove anything to you." While the other two are shouting for attention, La Serra is sitting in the corner looking effortlessly chic. It’s chiseled, it’s elegant, and it’s the perfect bottle for the drinker who wants their Nebbiolo to …

2001 vintage

young

2018 vintage

**Brought by a friend who always gets suckered into stashing this wine...This was thick, disjointed, lacking freshness, and more of a cross between an old port and a Chianti that could have been smashed together and shaken in a bottle. Almost like a wine cocktail...I finished one glass to be polite. I have never tasted a well aged Voerzio, so we may be on a theme here. Modern, extracted Barolos just dont age well...Just my opinion. I cant advise on …

2001 vintage

Really like this . Its drinking beautifully. Quite elegant , orange tinge /rim. Lovely evolving tannins, still grippy for further cellaring. still some florals on bouquet. complex long palate , big YES from me

1998 vintage

Great Barolo. Extremely elegant and smooth tannins. Dried rose petals and lots of red berries. Drinking nicely. Light in color, and already showing some brick. Love it. 88/100

2018 vintage

Fu$€ yeah! Wow. This is one of the most interesting and incredible Barolo I have tasted. Purchased off list at a small Osteria in Novara Italy So full So ripe Dry rose and cherry nose Tannins that are dry and powerful yet yield To the food. As a young wine, you don’t expect this level of finesse, but it’s there A treasure

2018 vintage

Popped and poured, then put the remaining roughly 1/3 of a bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. This is a cherry red wine with rusty orange notes starting to show through at the rim. The nose is great and very expressive (and clearly better on day 1 than day 2), showing cherries, rosehips, wet soil, and some damp iron or steel aspects. In the mouth, the wine is crisp and focused, largely revolving around the red fruit …

2007 vintage

This is barolo I did not take proper notes but I remember this wine fondly and this might have been the best bottle I drank in 2023.

2007 vintage

This bottle was probably not representative of the vintage -- it had been sitting for a long time in a hot Roman apartment and was very evolved. One person at the table said that it tasted like diluted port -- no acidity, a flavor of ripe figs, some tannin that became more apparent over the course of the evening. It was nevertheless delicious, rich and elegant and easy to drink, with some structure from the remaining tannin.

2001 vintage

Very disappointing - a flawed bottle - not what you expect.

2001 vintage

Do you like Barolo? Yes? Then you will find this wine idiotically good -- chewy tannins in the foreground, great depth, leather and tar and flowers and some meatiness, an assortment of flavors of intensity and complexity. Even after two decades, this wine needed four hours in the decanter -- it tasted thin and very acidic at first -- but was perfect with our New Year's Eve dinner. Lots of sediment. The last wine of 2022 and perhaps the best.

2001 vintage

Very Italian nose with the aromas of leather, tar, licorice and earthy. It is a big, huge, muscular wine with full mouth tannins. Not a fan. Curious why JS gives it 100 points😏😏😏

2007 vintage

The '07 La Serra is a dark beast of a wine, but it appears ready to drink today, as I already found it to be a more savory than fruit-forward wine. That said, I expect the wine will continue to drink well for a while, and it's possible the wine will benefit more from the tannins integrating further than it will lose further fruit. On the nose, I found black cherry fruit, game, smoke, leather, and sweet spices. On the …

2007 vintage

Less and less impressed by high extract at the cost of longevity and problems with retaining freshness. When you hang and squeeze too long and hard, the wines are big, voluptuous and delicious at the beginning, but they seem to tire out over time. This is what I am feeling here having drank a bottle twice over the last couple years. Definitely a decline from last time with a rather Merlot like thickness and far from a Barolo.If blind, I …

2007 vintage

BYO Litteraturhuset (Litteraturhuset i Oslo) : Dyp, mørk farge med murstens kant. Et whiff av aceton til å begynne med, det blåser raskt av. Deretter en nydelig duft av søte mørke bær, bål, tjære, røyk og askebeger. Sødmefull, kompakt smak med massiv munnfølelse og raspende tanniner. Her var flere på bordeaux basert på duft, vi kom oss raskt til nebbiolo og barolo pga tanninstrukturen. Massiv, 20 år gammel barolo som tåler mange år til

2001 vintage

Tasted blind. Really too hot and alcoholic, bitter aftertaste, cooked fruit. I don’t know if this was a badly stored bottle or it is over the hill, but didn’t enjoy this.

2001 vintage

New Years Eve- with wagyu fillet and mushrooms. Slow oxed for 6 hours and then decanted. Still had a little way to unwind and continued to open in the glass. Maybe at a slightly muted stage of evolution? The tannins and oak were well integrated- there was elegant acidity and mid palate heft (especially as it further opened up), and a silky texture throughout. Finish not as long as hoped for. All in all very good but not mind-blowing.

2001 vintage

This is a BIG Barolo! Muscular as it can get for a Nebbiolo, even after 13 years. The wine is filled with lots of fruit in the form of stewed red cherries aged in cedar. Long and persistent finish with tones of petrol and char. It improved in length and gained weight with time in the glass, but to me, it lacked the freshness to warrant more aging. Drink

2007 vintage

Piemonte wines tasting (at my home) : a ripe mature Barolo, from a fairly good, though not outstanding, vintage

1998 vintage

Aromas of cherry, prune, licorice, tar, and rose petal. Palate is hedonistic, with intensely concentrated fruit, earth, licorice, and salty minerality. Very fresh despite the massive fruit. Still quite a bit of tannin to resolve, but extremely pleasurable now. Finish goes on and on.

2001 vintage

Dinner organized by Mark T with Paolo/Matt/Jack - generous contributions from our cellars (Wolfgang's NYC on 41st) : Last wine of the evening, generous contribution from Paolo. Have had Voerzio's wines but first experience with this one. Decanted, open maybe 2 hours before drinking - could probably have used more time but great nonetheless. Drank with our "Cheese course" at the end of the evening* Dark ruby color, vibrant core, no separation. Perfumed and elegant nose of red fruits. Fruit …

2007 vintage

Siste flaske, dekantert, stadig meget pen, litt medisinskap dag en, mot markjordb�r dag to.

1998 vintage

Is it time to drink this now? The developed aromas of tar, prune, matured strawberries, ship yard and withered rose petals surely indicates that, but somehow there is still structure and grip to bare this wine further into the future. Classic aromas, complex in that sense, and really smooth and delicious on the palate.

2001 vintage

Double decanted a couple of hours before it was served. Currant, plum and spice notes with just a slight hint of bouillon that I find distracting. Currant and plummy dark fruit on the palate. Long finish. Excellent.

2001 vintage

Nose: mint, dark cherry ,oak, spice , dried rose palate: a bit chocolate , spice, dark fruit, modern, dried rose n drying tannin at the end. Still unbalanced by the astringent tannin, not sure if it can be resolved.

1998 vintage

The nose was dark with moist soil tones up front, giving way to black cherry, licorice, crushed fall leaves and hints of animal musk. On the palate, I found soft, velvety come-hither textures with fleshy cherry and strawberry fruits offset by a slight herbal note as inner florals and hints of sous bois developed. It finished on resolved yet tactile tannin, dark spiced cherries, with a liquor like quality, and a hint of resonating heat.

1998 vintage

Took to dinner at the Tam O’Shanter. No formal notes. Nice translucent red, although a darker shade of Barolo with no sediment. Nose has some herbs and tar. The mouth has some decent cherry flavors. There was a lot of heat throughout the experience, though. I hope this integrates or tones down a bit more.

2007 vintage

Good wine, but not showing much complexity. May need 5 more years to gain weight and secondary chararcteristics.

2007 vintage

Dekantert. �pner litt t�ff i trynet. Roer seg pent ned. Kirseb�rnese, av de behagelige. Roberto er en modernist, var i alle fall det i 1998, men her er ingen overdreven eik. Dag 2 er behager enda st�rre, alts� stadig lys framtid.

1998 vintage

Lakritze, Teer, Rosenblüten, elegant, Alkohol gut integriert, Tannine griffig, durch sein junges Alter noch nicht ganz abgerundet. Das richtige Gericht für die Trüffel. 93+

2007 vintage

Bolognese night at Tim's. Pop and poured. Drank over 3 hours. Appearance is clear, medium intensity, garnet colour. Legs. Heavy sediments towards the end. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of floral rose, tarry earth, licorice, red cherries. Developed. On the palate, dry, high acidity, high alcohol (14.5%), structured firm high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet red cherries, red plums, licorice, tarry earth, leather, and savoury salty umami with more air. Long finish. Very …

2001 vintage

Pen nese, ikke mye, men er der. Litt baktung kropp, ingenting galt, men kjedelig. Og da s�rlig i forhold til en 96 vi fikk p� Credo h�sten 2015, for ikke � snakke om hans Brunate 96, ogs� p� Credo, h�sten 2014. Ikke lenger noe � jakte p�. Krevende, ikke g�y.

1998 vintage

Massive nose, red fruits, floral, strawberries, raspberry, flowers, violets, olives, prune, raisin. Big palate, dense, great tannin and acid, very dried fruit in nature. Excellent wine.

1998 vintage

Deep and intense - early drinking window.

2001 vintage

App: cloudy brick-red Aroma: Classic Nebbiolo nose with cherries, roses, tar, moist earth Medium-bodied+ with excellent acidity and firm tannins. Concentrated wine with precise balance. Enormous length. Still young, but in a very nice place now. Do decant. Heavy sediment. Spectacular Barolo!

2001 vintage

Cooked.

2001 vintage

We decided to sip this "modern" Barolo tonight. Issues of how long to age in small or larger barrels, winemaking technique, etc, make for interesting intellectual discussion...sort of. We really do not care too much. We wanted our friend to experience because he introduced us to a Nebbiolo made by Typhoon 8 in Hong Kong that tasted like medicine. We could not let him believe a good Nebbiolo tasted like that. This wine is sipping very nicely now, but we …

2007 vintage

Deep ruby turning brick at its rim. Fragrant nose with sour cherry and strawberry marmelade aromas mixed with tar, lovely scents of carnation and a deep breath in a pine forest. Two hours after opening a rich array of aromas like licorice, tobacco, leather and olives have emerged as well as meaty undertones. Captivating with perfect grip, fine powdery tannins and an overall elegance that is effortless and simply caressing.

2007 vintage

Very, very good and in a lovely place right now.

2001 vintage

We decided to sip this "modern" Barolo tonight. Issues of how long to age in small or larger barrels, winemaking technique, etc, make for interesting intellectual discussion...sort of. We really do not care too much. This wine is sipping very nicely now, but we would argue "barely legal" because we are confident another decade or so is in its future. The "modern" gal will become a "traditional" lady...either way, molto interessante! Light, brownish-red. Perfume of ripe, black fruits with a …

2007 vintage

with mike and paul. i liked this but sadly it was at that point in the night when no notes were taken.

1998 vintage

The wine looks crimson colored. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like red currant, fig, prune, stoniness and cedar. It tastes like red currant, mineral and prune. The body is full. The wine has coarse texture. The wine finishes long. After a 45min. decant wine still needed more time to open up. Still could have aged longer.

2001 vintage

Fantastisk vin med et la t liv foran seg. Dekantert tre timer, drukket over 4. Utvikler seg hele veien. Venter et par �r med neste flaske, selv om det blir vanskelig!

1998 vintage

Serverades blint på min favoritvinbar The Burgundy i Stockholm. Tog både producent och årgång men gissade på att det var en Cerequio och inte La Serra. Hittar tyvärr inte mina anteckningar men vet att jag gav det 96 poäng

2001 vintage

Took to a group tasting last night and it's fair to say I was much more impressed with this wine than others. My tasting notes closely match my prior bottle, but the others tasters felt the wine was still highly tannic and disapprovingly "modern." I still like the damn stuff a lot, but the decanter still had a fair bit left in it at the end of the evening (to be fair, so did just about every other decanter/bottle)...

2001 vintage

Beautiful wine. Starting to show some bricking and hints of brown. Dark fruit nose of prune/fig, caramel and maybe cedar. Silky mouthfeel, with great focus and tremendous length. Palate similar to the nose, with classic Barolo flavors with great complexity and balance. Seems on a pretty quick evolutionary path -- I'd have guessed it was older, so I'd say drink up!

2001 vintage

World Wine Symposium 2013 - Kevin and Kelly's excellent adventure; 11/6/2013-11/14/2013 (Villa D’este, Lake Como) : It isn’t often that I get to drink the 07 La Serra back to back. I get the cooler impression yet they are almost identical. Dry red fruits, rose, tar and flowers. Quite precise palate impression, silky and nicely integrated tannins. Lovely.

2007 vintage

World Wine Symposium 2013 - Kevin and Kelly's excellent adventure; 11/6/2013-11/14/2013 (Villa D’este, Lake Como) : Lovely dry red fruits, rose, tar and baking spices. Lovely dense palate, medium concentration, dry sweet fruit palate and sweet tannins. This particular bottle is surprisingly open. Lovely.

2007 vintage

Darker core with orange copper rim; classic sandalwood, rose, cherry, and menthol; grainy tannin though this is soft and elegant, sour cherry, and a bit of iron; classic Nebbiolo; very delicious but a little one dimensional.

2001 vintage

Meh. Still marked by its elevage, but not terminally so. Now's a good time to drink. ETA: with air, the aromatics were beautiful.

1998 vintage

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