I have not tasted this Riserva since the 2007 vintage, so it's a great delight to sample the Azelia 2013 Barolo Riserva Bricco Voghera today. In the bottle with the gold and white label, fruit comes from a tiny and little-known site on the east-facing slope opposite Lazzarito. The vines are 95 years old on average, although some are as old as 120. They produce just two or three clusters per vine. This is another vineyard site with closed conditions and cool air currents that produce very firm, compact and age-worthy wines. Hence the Riserva designation. Tasted now 10 years after the harvest, you get a delightful expression with budding tones of evolution with black licorice and camphor ash. It ages in oak casks for five years, with another five years in bottle. You feel the tannins at the back, but they are soft and silky. This is a gorgeous wine that rewards those who drink it now. Only 3,100 bottles exist. 97pts - Monica Larner for The Wine Advocate

Garnet with brick hues betraying some age. Fantastic complexity on the nose, with darker cherry fruit, violets, leather and truffle, wood spice and hints of dried blood all in the mix. It's very expansive on the palate with umami flavours coupled with still lively fruit, savouriness and mouth-coating velvety tannins before that wood spice and some saline elements reappear on a finish that fans across the back-palate and subtly lingers. This is an exquisitely complete wine that has settled into a place of mellow sophistication. 97pts - Stephen Blandford for The Real Review

Attractive mineral notes with dried red fruit, nut shell, red spices and cedar. Medium- to full-bodied with compact but already supple tannins. Meaty and long with a round finish. So fine and silky. Already attractive, but still can age. 95pts - Jame Suckling