?Pretty aromas of wet earth and spices with black pepper and licorice. Medium body with full and defined tannins. Dense and powerful. Need three or four years to soften but will come along beautifully.? - J.S."
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 ...
Here in its first vintage, the 2015 Barolo Bussia is positively stellar. The natural richness of the year seems especially well-suited to the house style. Black cherry, spice, leather, smoke and licorice all run through this ample, full-bodied Barolo. Rea...
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...