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Considered the ultimate authoritarian guide, since 1988 Gambero Rosso’s annual publication rates over 20,000 Italian wines.  For a wine to be honored with one of the guide’s coveted Tre Bicchieri (3 glass) awards is considered among the highest achievements.  The selection process by 60 professional tasters takes eight months of regional “blind tasting”.   Among those esteemed winners in the 2024 guide is the Elvio Cogno Ravera Barolo ’19.   

One should not miss including this legendary wine in their collection! 

If you are unfamiliar Elvio Cogno, or the steep slopes of the Novello commune and its famed Ravera vineyard at 1200+ ft asl, then please visit the Elvio Cogno website.  In addition to the Tre Bicchieri award, just look at these additional highly consistent ratings below:

“This wine opens a window on one of the best cru sites in the appellation—the Ravera Vineyard on the Novello side, where steep hills descend down from a castle perched atop a beautiful panorama. From this vantage point, you look up at Novello and the Elvio Cogno winery built midway up the incline. The 2019 Barolo Ravera benefits from this special place and represents a wider net of fruit selected from across the estate vineyard. As a result, Ravera often shows extra versatility and depth.” – 96 points, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

“Tannins are sheer and long with a steely and muscular nature, yet they are nicely integrated. Full and toned. This is a wine for the cellar yet it already shows pretty floral and blue fruit character.” – 96 points, James Suckling

“The 2019 Barolo Ravera is beautiful with floral and spice perfume and offers a Burgundian aesthetic, with notes of apricot and wet stone. It is medium-bodied, highly refined, and pure, with complexity that continues to evolve in the glass, revealing notes of rhubarb, apricot, wild raspberry, and dusty earth. A beautiful and expressive wine with a lot of grace, it is going to drink well at a lot of stages, so don’t worry about whether to drink it soon or forget about it in the cellar over the next two decades.” –  96 points, Jeb Dunnuck

“There’s a lot going on in this complex red. Loaded with cherry, strawberry, earth, spice and iron flavors, this also reveals hints of menthol and tobacco. Harmonious, with a long, resonant finish that echoes both the fruit and savory notes. Best from 2026 through 2045.” – 95 points, Wine Spectator