Etiket: Barolo
Barolo “Vinum Vita East” 2018, Italy
Barolo for 3 $10 bills? Gossips can always fall back on Giacomo Conterno’s vintage Monfortino, sold… 40 times more expensive! Yet, everything is there. I would even suggest that we…
Barolo 2018, Silvio Grasso, La Morra, Piedmont, Italy
This nebbiolo can be recognized on the first nose, revealing an unusual and disconcerting mineral touch of rock dust and smoke. For the rest, the style is modern, with a…
Barolo 2017, Brandini, La Morra, Agricola Brandini, Piedmont, Italy
It is on tiptoe that the fine tannins of this Nebbiolo settle on the palate, as if they wanted to deconstruct the tenacious myth that a Barolo is a man’s…
Barolo 2018, Josetta Saffirio, Piedmont, Italy ($64 – 13906830)
The presence, height and natural authority are already apparent on the first nose. We are in the presence of what is here the confirmation of a great terroir. But also…
Grappa di Nebbiolo da Barolo invecchiata, Damilano, Piedmont, Italy
The nebbiolo made wine remains, and always will be, fine and muscular. The transition to a distillate amplifies it even more, a sounding board perceived here as elixirs of herbs,…
Barolo 2018, Josetta Saffirio, Monforte d’Alba, Piedmont, Italy
There are moments of pure intimacy with a grape variety, a vineyard, a house. The Barolo king invites us here without reserve, grown up under the aspirations but also under…