Ample and creamy on the palate, with tremendous depth, the 2016 Barolo Ginestra Casa Mate is super impressive, even in the early going. Next to the Gavarini Chiniera, the Ginestra Casa Mate is a Barolo of textural resonance and volume. Black cherry, plum ...
Concentrated and elegant with a great harmony of dry tannins and ripeness (but no hint of overripeness), this has a long finish with a lot of drive and enormous freshness. You could drink this now with red meat, but it's got decades ahead of it.
Racy and pure, with a quinine hint buried underneath sleek dried white peach, balsam wood and green fig flavors. The long, fine finish sits on a knife edge of sweet and dry. Drink now. 217 cases made, 66 cases imported.