94pts Vinous

The 2018 Barbaresco Vanotu is the most potent of the Pelissero Barbarescos. Plush, deep and layered in the glass, it offers up generous dark fruit, mocha, spice, licorice, plum and sweet French oak. This is an especially bold, sumptuous Barbaresco. Give it a few years in bottle to come together.

93pts Wine Spectator

A dense, concentrated style, yet with bracing acidity adding lift to the black cherry, blackberry, tar and new oak flavors. Shows assertive tannins offset by ripe fruit and fleshy texture, yet the astringent finish rules now. Be patient. Best from 2025 through 2042. 1,200 cases made, 375 cases imported.