The Bruno Rocca Barbaresco Currà 2021 is a highly regarded Barbaresco from Piedmont, Italy, known for its elegance, depth of flavours and complexity. It offers a captivating blend of dark red berry fruit, blood orange, mint, cinnamon, and cedar on the nose. This full-bodied wine features velvety tannins, crisp acidity, and a refined finish. It's described as a powerful yet graceful wine, with potential for aging, but also enjoyable now.

Bruno Rocca Barbaresco 'Marcorino' 2021. This exquisite Italian red wine offers a captivating balance of elegance and underlying power. On the nose, it unveils an alluring bouquet of ripe strawberries, tart cherries, delicate rose petals, and a distinctive mineral essence, intertwined with subtle hints of fresh herbs. The palate echoes these vibrant aromas, with juicy red fruit flavors lifted by a lively acidity that provides freshness and precision. The wine is framed by finely structured, chalky tannins that contribute to its depth and texture. The finish is remarkably persistent, showcasing an excellent mineral length that lingers on the palate, inviting another sip. This Barbaresco is a testament to the Marcorino vineyard's terroir, expressing both its fruity generosity and its refined mineral character.

Casa Maté is the more masculine of Grassos two regular Barolos, showing darker fruit, more tar and a more robust tannin profile. The fruit comes from a south-facing 3 ha plot within the Ginestra vineyard, 300-350 meters above sea level, on relatively loose-packed, slightly clayey, calcareous soil. Driven by rigorous attention to detail in the vineyard and picking at optimum phenolic maturity, Grassos Vigna Casa Maté is a contemporary expression of traditional Barolo underscored by immaculate winemaking. The wine is fermented in stainless steel and typically spends 30 days on skins followed by 30 months maturation in 2500L Slavonian oak casks.

Elvio Cogno Bricco Pernice Barolo According to winemaker Valter Fissorehusband of Elvio Cognos daughter Nadia, this plot is the heart and soul of the mighty Ravera cru. Exposed due south to the full brunt of afternoon light, Bricco Pernice is also protected from the wind. This dynamic conspires to create a mesoclimate considerably warmer than the rest of the cru. White soils heavy in solid limestone service strapping wines that are ferrous, pungently mineral, brooding and evocative of truffles, macerated cherry, liquorice, leather and iodine. As with Vigna Elena, these are candidates for long ageing, seeing three-years in botti for tone and poise. 'the estate of Elvio Cogno has unequivocally thrust itself into the pantheon of top Barolo makers.'Ned Goodwin MW Shop Elvio Cogno

Gavarini Vigna Chiniera is a contemporary expression of traditional Barolo. Of Grassos two regular Barolos, Chiniera is the more feminine in style, showing a more floral personality in a finer, more elegant style. The fruit comes from a south-facing 3 ha plot within the Gavarini vineyard, 320-360 meters above sea level, on relatively loose-packed, slightly sandy, calcareous soil. Driven by rigorous attention to detail in the vineyard and picking at optimum phenolic maturity, the Grasso style is underscored by immaculate winemaking. Vigna Chiniera is fermented in stainless steel and typically spends 30 days on skins followed by 30 months maturation in 2500L Slavonian oak casks.