2019 Alessandro Rivetto Comune di Serralunga d'Alba Barolo DOCG, Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹

The Moment

Some Barolos are built around perfume.
Others are built around gravity.

The 2019 Alessandro Rivetto Comune di Serralunga d’Alba Barolo DOCG feels like a bottle made for the second lane — a Barolo with the structure and seriousness you expect from Serralunga, but with enough polish to make the whole experience feel seamless instead of stern. A wine with a ruby-red color with light orange highlights, aromas of raspberry, vanilla, and tobacco with a touch of licorice, and a palate that is firm, ripe, rich, and elegant, a “beautifully harmonious wine that practically melts in your mouth.”

This is 100% Nebbiolo from the famed Serralunga district, grown on clay, limestone, and marl soils from 40–50 year old Guyot-trained vines. That already points toward Barolo with real depth, but the elevage makes it even clearer: 10–15 days on skins, then 30 months in oak barrels, followed by another year in bottle, with the wine not leaving the cellar before a minimum total aging period of 4–5 years after harvest. This is a bottle that was given time.

What It Feels Like

Think roasted meat, a slower dinner, and a wine that starts noble and finishes almost surprisingly graceful.

What makes this bottle compelling is the tension between force and harmony. The sheet gives you raspberry, tobacco, vanilla, and licorice on the nose, then calls the palate firm and rich but also elegant and practically melting. That is a very attractive description for a Serralunga Barolo, where you often want seriousness, but not hardness. It reads like a wine with authority that has already begun to settle into itself.

In the Glass

Aromatics
Raspberry, vanilla, tobacco, and a touch of licorice.

Palate
Firm, ripe, rich, and elegant, with a beautifully harmonious shape.

Texture
Structured and serious, but with a polished, almost melting feel through the middle. 

Finish
Long, savory, and composed, with spice and Nebbiolo lift carrying through the close. 

Why We Love This Bottle

Serralunga With Real Presence
This is sourced exclusively from the world-famous Serralunga district, which immediately puts the wine in a more serious Barolo register.

Aged Long Enough To Feel Integrated
Thirty months in oak plus another year in bottle, with a minimum total aging window of 4–5 years after harvest, gives this wine the time it needs to come together.

Classical, But Not Severe
It is firm and rich, but also elegant and harmonious. That is exactly what makes a traditionally built Barolo so compelling when it is done well.

Pair It With

• Roasted meat
• Game
• Dishes with truffle
• Aged cheeses
• Braised beef

Technical Notes

Producer: Alessandro Rivetto
Wine: Barolo DOCG “Serralunga” single vineyard
Vintage: 2019
Region: Piemonte – Langhe district of Serralunga in Alba county
City: Serralunga
Grape: 100% Nebbiolo (Michet, Lampia, Rosé clones)
Soil: Clay · Limestone · Marl

Vineyard Notes:
Guyot-trained vines averaging 40–50 years old, yielding approximately 2 tons per acre.

Winemaking:
Hand-harvested grapes are destemmed and pressed, then fermented in temperature-controlled vats for 10–15 days on the skins with frequent pump-overs. After malolactic fermentation, the wine ages in oak barrels for around 30 months, then spends another year in temperature-controlled bottle storage. Total aging before release is at least 4–5 years after harvest.

Body: Full
Structure: Firm tannin · rich core · elegant balance · long finish

Flavor Profile
Raspberry · Vanilla · Tobacco · Licorice · Savory Spice

Serving Temperature
64°F

Drink Window
Now–2040