Paolo Scavino Barolo Ravera 2020

From the Ravera vineyard, this wine has a brilliant ruby to garnet red color. The minerality of the aromatics and the delicate tones match its elegant, crystalline, and precise structure. The aromatics include rose hip, violet, iodate perfumes, ashes, tobacco, white peaches, red cherries, and balsamic elements like fresh mint. On the palate, it's full of energy, freshness, and finesse. The acidity is sharp, and the tannins have a beautiful tension yet are harmonious in the structure.

Wine Spectator: 95
Infused with berry and floral aromas and flavors, this red is lithe and elegant, with terrific harmony and length. Mineral, tar and wild herb accents add depth, but this is more about the fruit.

Wine Advocate: 93

This is a retaste. This parcel of Ravera in Novello has eastern exposures and rests on a flatter area at 430 meters above sea level. The site is open to the mountains, embracing air currents and luminosity. The Scavino family has three parcels in this MGA, measuring 2.8 hectares in total. The 2020 Barolo Ravera appears tight, nervous and complex. It shows ashy mineral tones, ferrous notes, underbrush, green herb and dark fruit.

Wine Enthusiast: 94
The nose lifts out of the glass with aromas of crushed raspberries, cherries and sour plum alongside a captivating array of mixed spices and wild herbs. The palate boasts a firm structure that showcases the interplay between macerated wild berries and the earthy elements that are still developing. This well-made wine is striking in its balance and intensity. Drink 2026 - 2045.

James Suckling: 95
Compact, concise and spiced with berries, warm herbs, forest floor and crushed black pepper aromas. Medium- to full-bodied with fine, firm tannins and crisp acidity. Vivid and crunchy with succulent small berries and sour cherries. It has a transparent character to it at the core and a racy finish with good length. Try after 2028.

Jeb Dunnuck: 95
Dark ruby, the 2020 Barolo Ravera is expressive and leads with mineral-tinged aromas of graphite, raspberry liqueur, sweet flowers, pine, and mossy earth. Medium-bodied, it displays more intensity on the palate, with an elegant but more chiseled feel, ripe tannins, even, energetic acidity, and a mouthwatering finish. It’s going to benefit from another couple years in bottle.