Paolo Scavino, Barolo Ravera

Paolo Scavino, Barolo RaveraThis is all about purity of cherry and raspberry fruit, with hints of rose, mineral and wild underbrush. Very firmly structured, showing terrific balance and a long, energetic finish. Very sleek and graceful. Best from 2023 through 2045. 500 cases made, 150 cases imported. BS

the 2011 offers attractive scents of dark red cherry

though still quite subtle

This was the first of the single-vineyard wines from Brovia released this year that I tasted in a flight meant to increase in intensity

the press wine never makes it into the final blends

Raspberries and cherries of incredible purity add hints of chocolate on the long finish but never seem heavy or warm

warm spices

Champs Goudins and Le Pré de la Folie

Some riper plum and spiced figs on the nose with dark coal smoke

The wine's best asset is the intact and vibrant quality of the primary fruitso presented now

Crème de cassis and blackberry aromas sufficient to fill the room emerge on the nose of Sorrel's 2017 Hermitage Le Greal

revealing itself in slow-releasing layers of black and blue fruits with exhilarating earth and mineral sparks

dried rose petal