Power, breadth and intensity are the signatures in Rocca's 2014 Barbaresco Riserva Rabajà. Exceptionally vivid for such a big wine, the 2014 exudes class. Naturally, the 2014 is very young and unevolved, but is is also hugely promising.

This is a delightful cool-vintage Nebbiolo that promises a long aging future ahead. In fact, I bet this wine will prove more interesting as it evolves, compared to a warmer vintage such as 2015 (which I tasted beside this wine). The 2014 Barbaresco Rabajà is tightly bound and firm at its center. It shows fragrant tones of wild rose, cassis, crushed mineral and balsam herb at the edges. These delicate nuances should develop and take on more power as the wine moves though time. This vintage ends with a vein of fresh acidity that adds to the focused and tight youthfulness of the wine today.