Our Visit to Cavallotto, November 19, 2025

Date of visit: November 19, 2025

One of the first Barolo we ever tasted was from Cavallotto. We’ve been visiting this incredible producer every year since 2018 (with the exception of 2020), and every year we anxiously look forward to this amazing tasting. 

Tasting notes:

2024 Pinner: The nose is fresh and juicy, and delivers notes of jasmine, cranberries, roses, white flowers, and honeysuckle, all of which carries over to the palate which is juicy, and finishes long. Perhaps our favorite vintage of Pinner that we’ve tasted from memory. Giuseppe said 2024 overall was a fairly challenging vintage, but it was good for Pinner, because it was cooler, there was a lot of rain, and it wasn’t too sunny, all of which Pinot Noir likes. 

2023 Barbera d’Alba Superiore “Vigna Cuculo”: Pronounced rustic aromas of hay, wet leaves, and mushrooms lead the way on the nose, and with additional time in the glass notes of licorice, tar, roses, crushed cherries, and wet stone slowly emerge. The palate is complex and structured, and effortlessly glides across the palate delivering rich, tart, red and black fruits with fine grippy tannins on the finish. Each time we return to the glass it reveals more and more. 

2023 Langhe Nebbiolo: Aromas of cranberries, raspberries, bubblegum, anise, and red fruits. The palate starts off silky, and grippy tannins emerge on the finish. Flavors of tart cherry juice, anise, bubblegum, and licorice. Very fresh and pure, with impeccable balance. Finishes incredibly long. Giuseppe noted that this wine was bottled in July, and as a result it’s very open right now, but it may shut down for 2 or 3 years before it shows like this again. Perhaps our favorite vintage of Cavallotto’s Langhe Nebbiolo that we’ve tasted.

2020 Barolo Bricco Boschis: Complex aromas of licorice, anise, wet stone, roses, and candied chestnuts. The palate is incredibly powerful, but still maintains amazing balance, and delivers a mix of juicy fruit flavors alongside structured bracing tannins. Incredible cellaring potential. Looking forward to revisiting this in 7-10 years time. An amazing Barolo. 

2021 Barolo Bricco Boschis: Bottled earlier this year; 3 years in wood in total, like all Barolo Bricco Boschis. A bit closed at the moment, the nose slowly reveals delicate notes of licorice, resin, and a faint hint of bubblegum. The palate is also a bit closed, but the potential is evident. Flavors of crushed cherry juice, anise, and faint hints of clove, alongside super aggressive youthful tannins which linger on. This is a structured powerhouse, which no doubt will be amazing with some time in the cellar. Eagerly looking forward to revisiting this 2035+, or perhaps 2037+, this incredible Barolo has a very long life ahead of it. 

2019 Barolo Riserva Vignolo: Beautiful pronounced aromas of roses, red berries, anise, licorice, and flowers, along with some more rustic notes of hay, wet leaves, and pine. The palate delivers bracing, structured, gritty, teeth coating tannins, which envelope the mouth and linger on alongside fresh crushed cherries. Impressive structure, and capable of lengthy cellaring. 

2019 Barolo Riserva Bricco Boschis Vigna San Giuseppe: Rusticity and finesse at its finest. Heaps and heaps of fresh crushed red fruits, flowers, roses, some tar and licorice, and with some time in the glass, some notes of bubblegum emerge.The palate delivers aggressive, youthful, mouth coating tannins, backed by soaring acidity, and flavors of pure crushed fresh cherries, raspberries, and licorice. The structure and balance are incredible. This is an incredible Barolo, with equally impressive cellaring potential, which we look forward to visiting in 15 years time. 

2018 Barolo Riserva Bricco Boschis Vigna San Giuseppe: Delicate, very pretty floral aromas of dusty rose, lily of the valley, and some dried fig. The palate is fairly open and giving today, with flavors of crushed cherries and red berries, alongside soaring acidity, which will allow for lengthy cellaring. Approachable now, but will really start to shine in another 2 or 3 years time, with long term cellaring potential for perhaps the next 20 years.

Thank You

Grazie mille Giuseppe, Alfio, Valentina, and the entire team at Cavallotto for once again  welcoming us back, and sharing your incredible wines with us. We hope to see you again very soon.