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From: 2020 Barolo: Selective Excellence (Jan 2024)
Alessandria's 2020 Barolo Capalot is a wonderfully elegant, poised wine. It offers up hints of macerated cherry, spice, orange peel, cinnamon, dried flowers and earth. Deep and layered, yet also nicely finessed, the 2020 is super-impressive in this tasting. It's the finest wine I have tasted to date from Alessandria and a wonderful harbinger for the future. But, then I tasted the Monvigliero. To be released in 2025. 2025 - 2040
- By Antonio Galloni on November 2023
Alberto Alessandria is one of the most promising emerging growers in Piedmont today. The 2020s spent about 30 days on the skins, with natural fermentations and spontaneous malolactic fermentations. Aging was done in large format oak, mostly Garbellotto 30HL casks, although the new Monvigliero Barolo was aged in 20HL Stockinger cask. Speaking of the Monvigliero, it is quite possibly the finest Barolo I have tasted here. Readers who admire classically built Barolos will find so much to admire.
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From: 2021 Barolo Part Two: Restless Energy (Sep 2025)
The 2021 Barolo Capalot is quite the powerhouse. Swaths of tannin wrap around a core of macerated red cherry, blood orange, white pepper, slate, chalk, mint and dried herbs. Readers will find an especially virile La Morra Barolo, a wine that delivers on all fronts. Impressive.
- By Antonio Galloni on September 2025
Alberto Alessandria’s 2021 Barolos are every bit as impressive as they were when I tasted them nearly a year ago. The wines confirm Alessandria’s place as one of the most talented young growers in Barolo today.
