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...
The 2009 Barolo Parafada (also a product of the rich, clay soils of Serralunga d'Alba) presents the darkest color of the three and bursts open with ripe flavors of dried blackberry, tobacco, used leather and licorice. But this is in no way a one-dimension...
A beautiful sense of resolve on the first impression with perfectly ripe red cherries taking center stage on the nose.
A ripe, layered Barolo with lots of dried strawberry, blueberry and floral aromas and flavors. It is rather more flamboyant red for this producer. Drinkable now, but better after 2023.
The 2016 Barolo Bussia is laced with a whole range of sweet floral and balsamic overtones, along with striking underpinnings of structure and tannin that give the wine its shape. A wine of energy, tension and nuance, the Bussia is just superb in 2016. Tim...