“Bright yellow-green. The enticing nose offers aromas of stone fruits, white truffle, fennel, crème brûlée and spicy vanillin oak. Broad, creamy and seamless; the lush texture is perfectly supported by harmonious acidity and lifted by noteworthy inner-mouth perfume of white flowers and sweet spices. Super-concentrated but also well balanced, this long wine leaves behind lingering flavors of molasses and rum. This was only the second vintage for this bottling, but the oak was very judiciously used and the wine has aged remarkably well. Starting in 2015, the winemaking regimen at Pievalta changed, and oak is no longer used to age the wine; by contrast, roughly 55% of the 2004 was aged in small oak barrels.”
— Vinous, Oct 2018