2021 Cascina delle Rose Barbaresco Tre Stelle

96 pts
An unadorned, beautifully made Barbaresco from one of the region’s most genuine small producers, showing off the elegance and quiet power of the Tre Stelle cru in a standout year.

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Cascina delle Rose is one of those old-school Barbaresco producers that just quietly gets on with the job - farming organically, making wine the traditional way, and letting their vineyards do the talking. Third-generation brothers Riccardo and Davide run the show now, and nothing’s rushed or overworked. No new oak, no flashy tricks - just long, gentle macerations and ageing in big old Slavonian botti. It’s all about purity and feel.

Their Tre Stelle bottling is something special. It comes from a tiny, higher-elevation section at the top of the Rio Sordo cru. It’s mostly limestone and marine marl up there, and that shows in the wine. Tre Stelle has always been the most lifted and elegant of their Barbarescos, but 2021 gives it a bit more flesh and drive than usual - ripe red fruit, layered texture, and tannins that grip without ever getting in the way.

This vintage is being quietly talked about as one of the greats. It’s got presence and polish, but it doesn’t shout. Just a beautiful, honest expression of place and season.

96+ points
"Ripe cherry, aniseed, rose petals, spice, and blonde tobacco lead into a medium-bodied, succulent wine with dark red fruit and mineral acidity. Firm, ripe tannins with a brick dust texture and a tea-and-rose finish of superb length. So bloody good."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

95 points
"Exceedingly graceful with wild berry, white currant, violet, and sweet earth. Polished and glossy in texture, with freshness and finesse from fossil-rich Sant'Agata marl soils. A beautifully classic vintage."
- Monica Larner (The Wine Advocate)

96+ points - "Lots of ripe cherry, aniseed/liquorice root, rose petals, spice and blonde tobacco. It’s medium-bodied, succulent in cherry and dark red fruit, a cool ‘mineral’ feel to acidity, and yes, ripeness here but it keeps itself nice and tight. Tannin is firm, ripe and has something of a brick dust texture, and there’s a tea and rose perfume on a finish of superb length. So bloody good. I’m touch and go for 97, and yes, I’m havering, though we shall see!" - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

95 points - "I love the delicate fiber and fine texture of this classic vintage. The Cascina delle Rose 2021 Barbaresco Tre Stelle is exceedingly graceful with an embroidery of wild berry, white currant, violet and sweet earth. It feels polished and glossy in texture. Fossil-rich Sant'Agata marl soils create a wine of freshness and finesse. Production is 8,000 bottles." - Monica Larner (The Wine Advocate)

The soils are of marine origin from the Tertiary era, characterized by outcropping bluish marls, lean, calcareous, compact lands. The stratification is dense and complex, rich in mineral salts and natural springs.

The Barbaresco Tre Stelle is the result of the best exposure of this geographical mention. 100% Nebbiolo grapes. Great character, undoubted finesse and femininity together for a long-lived wine of surprising pleasantness even when young thanks to the dense, snappy and silky tannic texture.

Garnet red in color, elegant notes of rose and violet, red berries, a vein of fresh minerality, snappy and silky tannins. Long, persistent finish. Nebbiolo in all its beauty.

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Nebbiolo
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
Reviewed By The Wine Advocate
The Wine Front
Critic Score 95
96
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2021
Closure Cork

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