The Elio Grasso 2016 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera is immediately expressive and bright. The wine is savory and rich with a generous bouquet of dried berries, spice, crushed flowers and even a hint of market-fresh blueberry that we don't see in the other wines...
Bright medium red, a bit less saturated than the Albarella. Fine, perfumed nose combines raspberry, minerals, flowers, clove, nutmeg and a note of leather. Juicy and supple but higher-pitched and less broad than the Albarella in its youth. The wine's fles...
A step up in density, breadth and sweetness from this producer's other 2005 Barolos; in fact, this is quite suave and full. Best today on the horizontal, ripely tannic finish, which offers intriguing balsamic and mineral traces. Like his other crus, this ...
The 2019 Barolo Margheria is a classic Serralunga Barolo. Deep, savory and wonderfully complex, the Margheria offers up a compelling mix of red/purplish fruit, sage, menthol, licorice, dried flowers, graphite and melted road tar. Muscular tannins wrap ...
The 2019 Barolo Parussi is Massolino's sole Barolo from Castiglione Falletto. A wine of total grace and refinement, the 2019 is pure seduction. Freshly cut flowers, mint, sweet red berry fruit, orange peel and rose petal soar out of the glass. Readers ...
The 2020 Barbaresco Albesani has more substance and depth than the straight Barbaresco. The differences between the two wines today aren't that marked at the outset, but that comes with aeration. Macerated cherry, plum, spice, lavender, rose petal and ...