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2018 Barolo, Via Nuova, E. Pira di Chiara Boschis, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Bruce Sanderson
92/100
Susan Hulme MW
94/100
Antonio Galloni
94/100
James Suckling
94/100
Audrey Frick
97/100
Monica Larner
94/100
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2018 Barolo, Via Nuova, E. Pira di Chiara Boschis, Piedmont, Italy
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Alcohol % 14
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Property E.Pira di Chiara Boschis, Piedmont

Critics reviews

Bruce Sanderson 92/100
A fragrant and elegant red, delivering tuberose, strawberry, cherry and grassy aromas and flavors. Taut and balanced, with bright floral and red fruit notes gracing the lingering finish.Drink 2024 - 2038Bruce Sanderson, Wine Spectator (September 2022)
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Bruce Sanderson, WineSpectator.com (Sep 2022)
Susan Hulme MW 94/100
The 2018 E. Pira & Figli Barolo Via Nuova has raspberry, iris and violet aromas with cream and spice notes. The aromas are both immediate and yet very persistent. On the palate there are delicate red fruits, wildflowers, with cool, blue-toned fruit and integrated spice. The tannins feel firm and grippy, but still very refined. A little less seamless than their Cannubi 2017 but still a lovely wine.Drink 2023 - 2044Susan Holme, The Wine Independent (July 2022)
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Susan Hulme MW, TheWineIndependent.com (Jul 2022)
Antonio Galloni 94/100
The 2018 Barolo Via Nuova is marked by palpable brightness and tension that lend energy. Like all of these wines, the 2018 is restrained in feel, but all the elements are so well balanced. Freshly cut flowers, mint, crushed rocks, chalk and white pepper give the Via Nuova notable energy. Intense veins of supporting tannin and minerality provide the backbone.Chiara Boschis turned out a set of beautiful and expressive Barolos in 2018 that in some ways remind me of the 2012s. Boschis shortened fermentations a touch, as many growers did, to about nine days for the Cannubi and Mosconi and about 11 days for the Via Nuova vineyards. Malos were all done in steel. As has been the case here in recent years, the Barolos are aged in a combination of cask and smaller neutral French oak, with a preference for cask for the more delicate wines of Barolo and smaller barrels for the firmer wines of Monforte and Serralunga.Drink 2024 - 2038antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (February 2022)
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Feb 2022)
James Suckling 94/100
Fascinating aromatic complexity that keeps your nose hovering over the glass. Raspberries with ginger biscuits, flowers and a twist of basil. There’s a deeper layer of crushed goji berries and talc-like minerals, too. Full, intense, silky and dainty with well-integrated tannins that even add a chocolatey touch. From organically grown grapes.So tempting to drink now, but better from 2024.james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (October 2022)
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James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Oct 2022)
Audrey Frick 97/100
The 2018 Barolo Via Nuova is fresh and lifted, with a really fresh approach. Supple with red fruit, red roses, and fresh orange, on the palate it offers fine tannins, a graceful, clean finish with a chalky texture, and a Burgundian aesthetic. A gorgeous wine, it is drinking beautifully now, and I think it will have a long life ahead as well.Drink 2024 - 2044audrey_frick, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)
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Audrey Frick, JebDunnuck.com (May 2023)
Monica Larner 94/100
This is an organic blend of fruit from six MGA sites: Terlo and Liste (in Barolo), Ravera di Monforte and Mosconi (in Monforte d’Alba) and Gabutti and Baudana (in Serralunga d’Alba). According to time-tested local tradition, the 2018 Barolo Via Nuova is fermented in steel and aged in oak. This mid-weight blended Barolo has a more prominent herbal or balsam signature at the back of red and purple fruits, liquorice and pressed violet. Production is 13,000 bottles.Chiara Boschis was the first producer to earn a certification for organics in the town of Barolo. She makes three outstanding expressions of Barolo: Barolo Cannubi (in Barolo); the Barolo Mosconi (from newly acquired vineyards in Monforte d’Alba); and the Barolo Via Nuova, which is a blend of fruit from six sites: Terlo and Liste (in Barolo), Ravera di Monforte and Mosconi (in Monforte d’Alba) and Gabutti and Baudana (in Serralunga d’Alba). She also launched the Cannubi Biologico initiative, which seeks to convert all producers who work in the Cannubi MGA to organics. So far, her grassroots movement has won over 25 of the 28 winegrowers present there.Drink 2025 - 2045monica_larner, Wine Advocate (June 2022)
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Monica Larner, RobertParker.com (Jun 2022)

About this wine

Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo is the grape behind the Barolo and Barbaresco wines and is hardly ever seen outside the confines of Piedmont. It takes its name from "nebbia" which is Italian for fog, a frequent phenomenon in the region.

E.Pira di Chiara Boschis, Piedmont

Since its purchase in 1980, following the tragic death of Luigi Pira, last in line of this historic family, Chiara Boschis di E. Pira has now grown this jewel of Barolo wine estate to 8.5ha/35,000 bts/ 50% of it, Nebbiolo. The estate is, like her, in perpetual motion and evolution. Since her brother Giorgio joined her a couple of years back, having left Borgogno, they’ve added new vineyards in Monforte d’Alba and started renting a plot in Serralunga’s Gabutti. The twin pillars of the (wine) estate are the vineyards Cannubi & Via Nuova. Cannubi, facing SW, is Barolo's legendary cru of which Chiara has a fair few rows. Cannubi should not be confused with the likes of Cannubi Boschis or Cannubi Muscatel. There’s been the addition of new French (Vicard) oak botte grande, and consequently marginally fewer new barriques bought, plus a new storage ‘bunker’ at their Barolo cantina. Her petite SSE-facing Via Nuova site located just up behind the winery was documented as far back as 1904, flanking the then new path to Novello; its vines are younger though, at 16 years. The modern vinification, carried out in a recently renovated cantina, is tightly controlled and constantly checked, with Chiara a keen analyst. Hulking rotofermentors still dominate the diminuitive cellar, though perhaps they're less frenetic than in the past. She’s still tending her cows in Castelmagno for their cheese, or should I say her other brother Cesare is, and in 2013 she added a new Barolo to the offer: Mosconi, a prodigious single vineyard Barolo from the village of Monforte d’Alba. Chiara's infectious energy, her can-do, will-do approach to life is reflected in her wines, which are constantly evolving she says, albeit incrementally. What doesn't alter, fortunately, is her staunch belief that the vineyards are sacred; a virtue which shines through in the deliciously seductive, compelling wines. A modern producer of Barolo who’s on the right tracks. David Berry Green, BBR Buyer

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