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Marchesi Barolo Barolo Riserva

  • Red
  • Italy
  • Barolo
  • Nebbiolo
Tracked vintages
23
Community notes
330
Merchant offers
52

What we know about this wine

Critics
91/ 1002016 vintage
Real drinkers
84/ 100330 notes, every vintage
Market price
£38per 75 cl2004 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
Drinking window
2015–2035peak2004 · 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 157 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barolo.

Body3.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity4.5 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.1 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.4 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · leather, earthy, mushroom, smoke, tar
  • Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cigar, cedar
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
  • Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black fruit, black cherry, dark fruit
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, anise, mint
  • Floral · violet, dried rose, perfume, rose petal, acacia

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.

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
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2004
95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2004
peak, window 2015–2035
Lowest price
2004
£38 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.

Barolo Riserva monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£20£30£402004£381971£42

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Barolo Riserva 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. 8 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Barolo Riserva monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2004£3895Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
1971£42——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016

Where to go next

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