Domenico Clerico
About Domenico Clerico
Clerico rose to become a "giant of Barolo" (Decanter), having started to produce wine in 1979 after taking over his father’s vineyard three years earlier and today this small but historic estate is now managed by winemaker and General Director Oscar Arrivabene. The winery is now one of the most respected names in all Barolo not only for their extremely high-quality wines but also for showcasing exceptional expression of the terroirs of their outstanding vineyard holdings in four of the greatest Crus of Monforte; Ginestra, Bussia, Pajana and Mosconi.

Product Name | Region | Qty | Score | Price | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Piedmont | 15 | - |
Inc. VAT
£398.69 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
Inc. VAT
£284.44 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 11 | - |
Inc. VAT
£236.69 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | 94 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£433.24 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94)Fruit for this wine comes from various vineyard parcels all located in Monforte d'Alba, and in fact, the plan is to identify this wine as being from this township starting with the 2017 vintage. Starting then, the front label will read Barolo di Monforte d'Alba, because the winemaking management at Domenico Clerico feels it is important to identify this wine with a geographic location. But for now, we have the 2015 Barolo. This is an extremely elegant and graceful expression with classic Monforte d'Alba characteristics: The wine shows a tight and powerful inner core and the qualities (integrated acidity and tannins) for long cellar aging. You have everything in this one package. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 94+ (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£264.04 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94+)The classic 2016 Barolo by Domenico Clerico is a generous and full wine that offers a panoramic view of the Nebbiolo grape all in bright Technicolor and with the appropriate intensity. The wine's all-encompassing approach brings many details into focus, including wild cherry, spice, leather and ferrous soil. Fruit is exclusively from Monforte d'Alba, with some from the lower parts of Pajana and Per Cristina and some from the younger vines planted in Ciabot Mentin. This is an elegant expression with the mild oak signature that is an important part of the Clerico playlist. Camphor ash and burnt embers lift lightly as the wine opens in the glass. It ages in barrique for eight months, followed by another year in larger oak casks. Some 20,000 bottles were released. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | - |
Inc. VAT
£153.85 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | - |
Inc. VAT
£435.64 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 36 | 86 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£257.29 |
|||||
Vinous (86)The 2018 Barolo is light, washed out and lacking in both depth and persistence. There is just nothing to the 2018. This soft, supple Barolo is best enjoyed over the next few years. Vineyard sites are Bussia, Ginestra and Mosconi. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 19 | 86 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£437.09 |
|||||
Vinous (86)The 2018 Barolo is light, washed out and lacking in both depth and persistence. There is just nothing to the 2018. This soft, supple Barolo is best enjoyed over the next few years. Vineyard sites are Bussia, Ginestra and Mosconi. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 92-95 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£1,437.89 |
|||||
Vinous (92-95)The 2007 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is much improved in this, its second vintage. Ripe dark fruit, espresso, licorice and mint are some of the notes that emerge from this rich, powerful Barolo. All of the elements are in place for this to be a splendid Barolo once it goes into bottle in 2011. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 96 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£510.04 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (96)This wine was not produced in 2012. The excellent 2013 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj (with fruit from the clay soils of Baudana in Serralunga d'Alba) is a powerful, generous and dramatic wine that promises a very long drinking future ahead. The fruit is dark, rich and exuberant. There is a touch of black cherry sweetness that is very specific to this growing site and the heavier soils that characterize it. At this young stage, the wine is slightly austere and rigid, especially in terms of mouthfeel. This is completely expected, especially in a cool vintage such as 2013. The wine needs time to unfold and blossom like a rose. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 95 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£537.64 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (95)In terms of power and intensity, this is always the highest-flying wine in the Domenico Clerico lineup. The 2014 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj reaches those altitudes thanks to the quality of the fruit, all sourced from the Baudana vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba where some of the most powerful Barolos are born. The wine is solid and decisive in personality, imparting long-lasting flavors of dark berry, spice, moist earth and freshly shaved truffle. You feel that intensity grow, especially as the wine washes over the palate in thick waves. The tannins are dry and solid. The 2014 vintage was not easy, but Aeroplan Servaj glides straight past those difficulties. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£612.04 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2015 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj, from a parcel in Baudana, is the most successful of Clerico's 2015s, as it has handled the rigors of the year well. Bright red cherry, blood orange, mint, spice, anise and pine give the 2015 a lovely upper register of aromatics, while veins of Serralunga add energy as well as persistence. This is very nicely done. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£677.09 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2016 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is powerful and incisive, with plenty of Serralunga tannin that gives the wine tension. Red cherry and red plum fruit pulse with real energy all the way through to the finish, with a whole range of savory and iron/mineral accents that add complexity. Deceptive in its mid-weight, structure, the 2016 has a lot to offer. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£689.09 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2016 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is powerful and incisive, with plenty of Serralunga tannin that gives the wine tension. Red cherry and red plum fruit pulse with real energy all the way through to the finish, with a whole range of savory and iron/mineral accents that add complexity. Deceptive in its mid-weight, structure, the 2016 has a lot to offer. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | - |
Inc. VAT
£835.24 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 95+ (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£625.24 |
|||||
Vinous (95+)Good full red. Liqueur-like plum and black cherry on the nose. Then fine-grained and classy but tightly wound, showing utterly primary flavors of cherry, red berries and menthol. There's no way into this extremely backward wine today. But it has the racy acidity and excellent clarity for a spectacular evolution in bottle. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
Inc. VAT
£507.64 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 90 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£732.04 |
|||||
Vinous (90)The 2014 Barolo Ciabot Mentin is energetic, focused and driven in feel, but it remains a bit clenched and less expressive than the other wines in this range. Today the tannins are a bit aggressive, which contributes to the wine's unyielding personality. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 92 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£608.44 |
|||||
Vinous (92)The 2015 Barolo Ciabot Mentin shows a bit more body and richness than the Pajana, but it, too, looks like an early maturing wine. Black cherry, plum, licorice, spice and menthol all flesh out in this attractive, mid-weight Barolo. Bright Ginestra floral and mineral notes develop with time in the glass, adding freshness and vivacity. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
Inc. VAT
£720.04 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 12 | 91 (DC) |
Inc. VAT
£330.29 |
|||||
Decanter (91)According to Domenico Clerico's winemaker, ‘in the 2019 vintage there is five percent of barrique due to the important tannic pattern of the vintage, otherwise the wine ages in big Slavonian oak.’ Full of leafy lightness and focused on cherry kernel and red currant fruit, the wine is precise and more elegant than powerful, with almost-crisp acidity and velvety tannins. It's a bit more fierce, if not rustic, on the finish. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 3 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£805.24 |
|||||
Vinous (93)This strong series continues with the 2001 Barolo Pajana. It too is a deeply-colored effort, with notes of violets, minerals and tar that appear out of the glass. The lower altititude of the vineyard gives a wine that is perhaps a touch less complex aromatically but that is quite rich, round and soft on the palate with generous amounts of very ripe black fruit,chocolate and toasted oak flavors supported by notable structure and finishing with excellent length. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | 94+ (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£732.04 |
|||||
Vinous (94+)Good medium red. Less expressive on the nose than the Briccotto, hinting at ripe, musky plum, black raspberry, menthol and tobacco. Then smooth and sweet in the mouth, but with terrific energy keeping the red fruit and tobacco flavors fresh and primary. Sweeter and more elegant in style than the 2009, but this fine-grained, firmly tannic wine really shut down in the glass. Outstanding potential here. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 94 (WA) |
Inc. VAT
£790.84 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94)The Pajana vineyard is known for its loose, sandy soils and red-colored earth, and the 2014 growing season brought cool and wet conditions. This cru is a nice, loyal expression of those Nebbiolo grapes. The 2014 Barolo Pajana is dark and thickly structured, and probably more accessible overall. This wine can be enjoyed in the medium-term, after five years (more or less) of cellar time. It saw 16 months in barrique, another 16 months in botte grande and a couple of years in the bottle. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | 90.5 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£507.64 |
|||||
Vinous (90.5)The 2016 Barolo Pajana is ample, powerful and resonant, with terrific body and a real sense of expansiveness that builds with time in the glass. Sweet spice, citrus and floral overtones add brightness to this attractive, mid-weight Barolo. The 2016 is deep and yet also tannic. I would prefer to cellar it for at least a few years. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 6 | - |
Inc. VAT
£474.29 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | 88 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£1,364.69 |
|||||
Vinous (88)Sadly, the 2010 Barolo Percristina is already mature. Sweet tobacco, mint, licorice, dried fruit and heavy torrefaction notes are all suggestive of a wine that needs to be enjoyed within the next few years at most. Three years in oak, 60% new, appears to have been too much. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£1,360.84 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2011 Barolo Percristina is an attractive wine that has aged quite well over the last decade, which is a major step forward. Succulent dark cherry, plum, new leather, licorice, menthol, espresso, spice and blood orange flesh out in a supple, juicy Barolo from Clerico. In 2011, Percristina is quite a bit more laid back and less concentrated than in previous years. It is also impeccably balanced and a pure joy to taste today. Drink it over the next handful of years. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 8 | - |
Inc. VAT
£265.49 |
|||||
Product Name | Region | Qty | Score | Price | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Piedmont | 15 | - |
In Bond
£313.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
In Bond
£221.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 11 | - |
In Bond
£178.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | 94 (WA) |
In Bond
£345.00 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94)Fruit for this wine comes from various vineyard parcels all located in Monforte d'Alba, and in fact, the plan is to identify this wine as being from this township starting with the 2017 vintage. Starting then, the front label will read Barolo di Monforte d'Alba, because the winemaking management at Domenico Clerico feels it is important to identify this wine with a geographic location. But for now, we have the 2015 Barolo. This is an extremely elegant and graceful expression with classic Monforte d'Alba characteristics: The wine shows a tight and powerful inner core and the qualities (integrated acidity and tannins) for long cellar aging. You have everything in this one package. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 94+ (WA) |
In Bond
£204.00 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94+)The classic 2016 Barolo by Domenico Clerico is a generous and full wine that offers a panoramic view of the Nebbiolo grape all in bright Technicolor and with the appropriate intensity. The wine's all-encompassing approach brings many details into focus, including wild cherry, spice, leather and ferrous soil. Fruit is exclusively from Monforte d'Alba, with some from the lower parts of Pajana and Per Cristina and some from the younger vines planted in Ciabot Mentin. This is an elegant expression with the mild oak signature that is an important part of the Clerico playlist. Camphor ash and burnt embers lift lightly as the wine opens in the glass. It ages in barrique for eight months, followed by another year in larger oak casks. Some 20,000 bottles were released. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | - |
In Bond
£125.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | - |
In Bond
£347.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 36 | 86 (VN) |
In Bond
£208.00 |
|||||
Vinous (86)The 2018 Barolo is light, washed out and lacking in both depth and persistence. There is just nothing to the 2018. This soft, supple Barolo is best enjoyed over the next few years. Vineyard sites are Bussia, Ginestra and Mosconi. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 19 | 86 (VN) |
In Bond
£345.00 |
|||||
Vinous (86)The 2018 Barolo is light, washed out and lacking in both depth and persistence. There is just nothing to the 2018. This soft, supple Barolo is best enjoyed over the next few years. Vineyard sites are Bussia, Ginestra and Mosconi. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 92-95 (VN) |
In Bond
£1,179.00 |
|||||
Vinous (92-95)The 2007 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is much improved in this, its second vintage. Ripe dark fruit, espresso, licorice and mint are some of the notes that emerge from this rich, powerful Barolo. All of the elements are in place for this to be a splendid Barolo once it goes into bottle in 2011. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 96 (WA) |
In Bond
£409.00 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (96)This wine was not produced in 2012. The excellent 2013 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj (with fruit from the clay soils of Baudana in Serralunga d'Alba) is a powerful, generous and dramatic wine that promises a very long drinking future ahead. The fruit is dark, rich and exuberant. There is a touch of black cherry sweetness that is very specific to this growing site and the heavier soils that characterize it. At this young stage, the wine is slightly austere and rigid, especially in terms of mouthfeel. This is completely expected, especially in a cool vintage such as 2013. The wine needs time to unfold and blossom like a rose. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 95 (WA) |
In Bond
£432.00 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (95)In terms of power and intensity, this is always the highest-flying wine in the Domenico Clerico lineup. The 2014 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj reaches those altitudes thanks to the quality of the fruit, all sourced from the Baudana vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba where some of the most powerful Barolos are born. The wine is solid and decisive in personality, imparting long-lasting flavors of dark berry, spice, moist earth and freshly shaved truffle. You feel that intensity grow, especially as the wine washes over the palate in thick waves. The tannins are dry and solid. The 2014 vintage was not easy, but Aeroplan Servaj glides straight past those difficulties. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£494.00 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2015 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj, from a parcel in Baudana, is the most successful of Clerico's 2015s, as it has handled the rigors of the year well. Bright red cherry, blood orange, mint, spice, anise and pine give the 2015 a lovely upper register of aromatics, while veins of Serralunga add energy as well as persistence. This is very nicely done. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£545.00 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2016 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is powerful and incisive, with plenty of Serralunga tannin that gives the wine tension. Red cherry and red plum fruit pulse with real energy all the way through to the finish, with a whole range of savory and iron/mineral accents that add complexity. Deceptive in its mid-weight, structure, the 2016 has a lot to offer. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£555.00 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2016 Barolo Aeroplan Servaj is powerful and incisive, with plenty of Serralunga tannin that gives the wine tension. Red cherry and red plum fruit pulse with real energy all the way through to the finish, with a whole range of savory and iron/mineral accents that add complexity. Deceptive in its mid-weight, structure, the 2016 has a lot to offer. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | - |
In Bond
£680.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 95+ (VN) |
In Bond
£505.00 |
|||||
Vinous (95+)Good full red. Liqueur-like plum and black cherry on the nose. Then fine-grained and classy but tightly wound, showing utterly primary flavors of cherry, red berries and menthol. There's no way into this extremely backward wine today. But it has the racy acidity and excellent clarity for a spectacular evolution in bottle. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
In Bond
£407.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 90 (VN) |
In Bond
£594.00 |
|||||
Vinous (90)The 2014 Barolo Ciabot Mentin is energetic, focused and driven in feel, but it remains a bit clenched and less expressive than the other wines in this range. Today the tannins are a bit aggressive, which contributes to the wine's unyielding personality. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 92 (VN) |
In Bond
£491.00 |
|||||
Vinous (92)The 2015 Barolo Ciabot Mentin shows a bit more body and richness than the Pajana, but it, too, looks like an early maturing wine. Black cherry, plum, licorice, spice and menthol all flesh out in this attractive, mid-weight Barolo. Bright Ginestra floral and mineral notes develop with time in the glass, adding freshness and vivacity. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | - |
In Bond
£584.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 12 | 91 (DC) |
In Bond
£256.00 |
|||||
Decanter (91)According to Domenico Clerico's winemaker, ‘in the 2019 vintage there is five percent of barrique due to the important tannic pattern of the vintage, otherwise the wine ages in big Slavonian oak.’ Full of leafy lightness and focused on cherry kernel and red currant fruit, the wine is precise and more elegant than powerful, with almost-crisp acidity and velvety tannins. It's a bit more fierce, if not rustic, on the finish. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 3 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£655.00 |
|||||
Vinous (93)This strong series continues with the 2001 Barolo Pajana. It too is a deeply-colored effort, with notes of violets, minerals and tar that appear out of the glass. The lower altititude of the vineyard gives a wine that is perhaps a touch less complex aromatically but that is quite rich, round and soft on the palate with generous amounts of very ripe black fruit,chocolate and toasted oak flavors supported by notable structure and finishing with excellent length. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 4 | 94+ (VN) |
In Bond
£594.00 |
|||||
Vinous (94+)Good medium red. Less expressive on the nose than the Briccotto, hinting at ripe, musky plum, black raspberry, menthol and tobacco. Then smooth and sweet in the mouth, but with terrific energy keeping the red fruit and tobacco flavors fresh and primary. Sweeter and more elegant in style than the 2009, but this fine-grained, firmly tannic wine really shut down in the glass. Outstanding potential here. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 1 | 94 (WA) |
In Bond
£643.00 |
|||||
Wine Advocate (94)The Pajana vineyard is known for its loose, sandy soils and red-colored earth, and the 2014 growing season brought cool and wet conditions. This cru is a nice, loyal expression of those Nebbiolo grapes. The 2014 Barolo Pajana is dark and thickly structured, and probably more accessible overall. This wine can be enjoyed in the medium-term, after five years (more or less) of cellar time. It saw 16 months in barrique, another 16 months in botte grande and a couple of years in the bottle. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | 90.5 (VN) |
In Bond
£407.00 |
|||||
Vinous (90.5)The 2016 Barolo Pajana is ample, powerful and resonant, with terrific body and a real sense of expansiveness that builds with time in the glass. Sweet spice, citrus and floral overtones add brightness to this attractive, mid-weight Barolo. The 2016 is deep and yet also tannic. I would prefer to cellar it for at least a few years. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 6 | - |
In Bond
£376.00 |
|||||
|
Piedmont | 2 | 88 (VN) |
In Bond
£1,118.00 |
|||||
Vinous (88)Sadly, the 2010 Barolo Percristina is already mature. Sweet tobacco, mint, licorice, dried fruit and heavy torrefaction notes are all suggestive of a wine that needs to be enjoyed within the next few years at most. Three years in oak, 60% new, appears to have been too much. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 5 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£1,118.00 |
|||||
Vinous (93)The 2011 Barolo Percristina is an attractive wine that has aged quite well over the last decade, which is a major step forward. Succulent dark cherry, plum, new leather, licorice, menthol, espresso, spice and blood orange flesh out in a supple, juicy Barolo from Clerico. In 2011, Percristina is quite a bit more laid back and less concentrated than in previous years. It is also impeccably balanced and a pure joy to taste today. Drink it over the next handful of years. |
|||||||||
|
Piedmont | 8 | - |
In Bond
£202.00 |
|||||