Floral, spiced notes are wrapped around the long, sensual finish. With more time in the glass the open, perfumed quality of Rocche comes through even more clearly. To be sure, this remains a powerful, austere wine in need of significant time in bottle, bu...
I was equally impressed with the estate's Barolo. For example, the 2009 Barolo Vigna Cerretta is a bold and brawny wine with elaborate aromas of tobacco smoke, cigar box, leather and dark fruit. It shows great aromatic intensity, brewing carefully in the ...
Brezza's 2015 Barolo Sarmassa is dense, powerful and quite alluring. The tannins need time to soften, but a core of dense fruit lies behind all of the structural intensity that is present today, and is only waiting for the right time to emerge fully. Ment...