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2012 Barolo, Villero, Riserva, Vietti, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful
Jancis Robinson MW
17.5/20
Antonio Galloni
95+/100
Product: 20128117236
2012 Barolo, Villero, Riserva, Vietti, Piedmont, Italy
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Producer Vietti

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 17.5/20
Lustrous mid ruby. Hints of autumn leaves over rich cherry fruit and with a hint of malt. Bags of fine-grained tannins and luscious fruit, but this is by no means easy-going. Concentrated and tightly packed with tannins, and with fantastic balance. Really big powerful finish, but not heavy. Lots of potential and in spite of all that full-on fruit, in need of further bottle age.Drink 2022-2034JancisRobinson.com (May 2019)
Drink 2022 - 2034
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (May 2019)
Antonio Galloni 95+/100
Vietti’s 2012 Barolo Riserva Villero is absolutely gorgeous. In 2012, the Villero is especially lifted and aromatic, showing a distinctly floral and red-toned expression of fruit rather than the darker, more balsamic inflections that are typical of this Castiglione Falletto cru. Light on its feet, fresh and graceful to its core, the Villero is another terrific wine from Vietti in 2012. Veins of Villero tannin and bright acids give the wine energy, vibrancy and tons of character. More than anything else, though, the 2012 Villero is a very clear continuation of a stylistic evolution that can be traced to the 2010 Barolo Ravera in which the Barolos are now made in a more traditional style than in the past, which includes malolactic fermentation in cask rather than barrique. In 2012, that approach was not in place for all the Barolos, but it is very much evident here.Drink 2022-2042antonio_galloni, Vinous.com (Jun 2019)
Drink 2022 - 2034
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Jun 2019)

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.
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Vietti

The Vietti family has been producing wine for four generations in Castiglione Falletto, at the heart of the Barolo area. Carlo Vietti founded the winery in the 1800s and his son Mario and the next generations carried on his legacy, focusing on improving the production. Then, in 1952, Alfredo Currado (Luciana Vietti’s husband) was one of the first to select and vinify grapes from single vineyards (such as Brunate, Rocche and Villero). This was a radical concept at the time, but today virtually every vintner making Barolo and Barbaresco wines offers “single vineyard” or “cru-designated” wines. Today, the winery is in the hands of Luca Currado Vietti and is considered to be one of the very best Piedmont producers. Their wines are highly sought-after, with beautifully designed labels as well as wonderful wine. In 1970, Alfredo and Luciana decided to support to some local artists and have selected labels turned into artworks. Artists such as Gianni Gallo, Eso Peluzzi, Pietro Cascella, Mino Maccari, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Claudio Bonichi, Valerio Miroglio, Pierflavio Gallina, Gioxe de Micheli, have had their works displayed to a much wider audience via the bottles of Vietti wines. In 1996 the most recent artist series label came from American realist Janet Fish on Vietti’s 1990 Barolo “Villero.” The whole collection of artist labels was shown at the Museum of Modern Art of New York
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