The 2007 Barolo Lazzarito is a superb, plush wine loaded with dark fruit, flowers of all sorts, sweet menthol and minerals, all of which flow through to the long, powerful finish. The wine''s inner perfume emerges over time, adding even more nuance and subtlety to this big Barolo. The 2007 Lazzarito is far from an open, easygoing wine, in fact it needs time, and lots of it. Anticipated maturity: 2022-2042. (Antonio Galloni)

Good medium red. Spicy aromas and flavors of musky minerals, dried flowers and black pepper. Much more backward and austere than the Rocche, but with a classic dryness and superb precision. Not yet generous or pleasurable but this dry, powerfully tannic wine has the sheer intensity and underlying mineral spine to reward extended cellaring. A bit like a Rhone wine in nebbiolo clothing. Luca Currado noted that "the fruit must be brilliant for a Barolo to age a long time."