To cut to the chase, 2019 is manna from heaven for Barolo lovers. Alongside 2010, 2013 and 2016, the great growers have crafted some of their most engaging wines of the decade, and Sandrone is no different. The first thing to say is that if you didn’t know a thing about the growing season, you would be hard-pressed to pick 2019 as a warm year. Instead, the wines carry the classical shape and tension that characterised cooler years like 2005 or 2016. Then, the wines have a charming, glistening inner sweetness and chiselled, integrated tannin that is all their own. Together, the two make for a beautiful marriage between contemporary and classic. In Barbara Sandrone’s words, 2019 is a “very special vintage”.
‘Sandrone is now a historic estate, but the wines keep getting better and more finessed, a testament to the drive for perfection that runs through every aspect of this exemplary winery... Of the Piedmont wineries that are still in their first generation, those that started in or around the 1980s, Luciano Sandrone is arguably the only estate that has joined the small group of properties, all of them multi-generational, whose wines are widely recognized as icons and collectibles.’
– ANTONIO GALLONI, VINOUS
