Aldo Conterno Barolo Bussia

Red
Italy
Barolo
Nebbiolo

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 32
Community notes: 509
Merchant offers: 85

What we know about this wine

Critics: 92/ 1002021 vintage
Real drinkers: 88/ 100509 notes, every vintage
Market price: £80per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
Drinking window: 2018–2030peak2013 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 377 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barolo.

Body3.8 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.6 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.4 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · leather, tar, earthy, mushroom, smoke
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, chocolate
Spice · licorice, cinnamon, pepper, anise, mint
Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black cherry, black fruit, blackcurrant
Floral · violet, rose petal, perfume, dried rose, dried flowers

Grapes: Nebbiolo. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£44–£269GBP per 75 cl · 14 priced vintages

1964One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 1990; 95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2010; peak, window 2016–2035
Lowest price: 2017; £44 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Barolo Bussia monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 7 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Barolo Bussia monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2020	£80	—	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2017	£44	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2014	£46	92.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2020
2013	£59	89	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
2010	£69	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019
2006	£52	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016
2005	£65	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
2004	£109	91	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
1999	£75	90	—	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, July 2017
1974	£101	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
1971	£169	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016
1968	£106	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2017
1967	£152	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
1964	£269	—	—	per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022

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