Vietti Barolo Riserva Villero
- Red
- Italy
- Barolo
- Nebbiolo
- Tracked vintages
- 15
- Community notes
- 186
- Merchant offers
- 74
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002016 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 100186 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £340per 75 cl2016 vintage · 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- Drinking window
- 2007–2021past its window1997 · 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 85 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barolo.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity4.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · leather, tar, minerals, earthy, smoke
- Oak · oak, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, mocha
- Spice · mint, licorice, eucalyptus, menthol, musk
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, wild strawberry
- Black fruit · black cherry, black fruit, plum, blueberry, bramble
- Floral · rose petal, violet, dried rose
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.
1982One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2016
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.
- 201697critic£340 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201399critic£409 / 75cl1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 201296critic£200 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 201098critic£263 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 200998critic£400 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
- 200798criticunit not stated
- 200696critic£288 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 200496critic£172 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
- 200195critic£204 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
- 199795critic£447 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 199696critic£346 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 199094drinkers
- 198992critic
- 198587drinkers
- 198291critic£470 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2013
- 99 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2004
- £172 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | £340 | 97.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 2013 | £409 | 98.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2012 | £200 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 2010 | £263 | 97.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 2009 | £400 | 97.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023 |
| 2006 | £288 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 2004 | £172 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016 |
| 2001 | £204 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017 |
| 1997 | £447 | 95 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 1996 | £346 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 1982 | £470 | 91 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
Where to go next
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