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The 2021 Barolo Sperss is a jeweled ruby color and has a beguiling matched balance of power and finesse. Seamless from start to finish, it offers notes of black raspberries, sweet flowers, fresh herbs, and apricot. It’s saturating with a medium-bodied richness that expands through the palate, with refined, polished tannins, even acidity, and a profound length on the finish. It’s a harmonious and resonating wine with a lot to enjoy over the next several decades. ~ 100 Jeb Dunnuck

From the Marenca and Rivette sites in Serralunga, the gorgeous 2021 Sperss has great structure, precision and finesse, delivering aromas and flavors of succulent raspberry, star anise, camphor and forest floor. A backbone of firm but refined tannins shows its Serralunga roots while fresh acidity keeps it vibrant and bestows great energy and longevity. ~ 99 Kevin O'Keefe

With fruit from Serralunga d'Alba, the Gaja 2021 Barolo Sperss is marked by a distinctive ferrous note of rusty nail or soft earth that frames a core of dark fruit. The wine is exceptionally balanced and beautiful with depth and a high level of fruit purity. Unlike the Conteisa, which ends with a sweeter floral note, this wine is decidedly salty and stony on the finish, giving it a harder edge in terms of structure. ~ 98 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Intensely bright ruby colour with a fine garnet sheen. Compact nose, opens with notes of dried rose petal, plum and cranberry. Concentrated and full-bodied on the palate, showing beautifully ripe fruit, opens with full-bodied, very well-placed tannins, deep and long, earthy components on the finish, made for a long life. ~ 98 Falstaff

An austere, restrained wine with aromas of graphite, red currants, strawberries, red cherries and blood oranges. Full-bodied, it shows youthful character, citrus and toast flavors, crisp acidity and firm, dusty yet fine-grained tannins. Austere finish, but in a positive way. Best after 2026 ~ 97 James Suckling

Enticing red fruit flavors of cherry, strawberry and rose are the highlights of this taut red, shaded by iron, mint and tobacco notes, with terrific harmony and a lingering, chalky finish. Everything is in the right place, but this just needs time. Best from 2029 through 2050. 400 cases imported. ~ 97 Wine Spectator

The 2021 Barolo Sperss is a huge, dense wine. Black fruit, graphite, scorched earth, tobacco and incense emerge, but with great reluctance. This powerhouse Serralunga Barolo packs a tremendous punch. It's classic Serralunga all the way. Readers should plan on being patient. ~ 97 Vinous Media