Known for their traditional winemaking—including extended macerations and long aging in large botti—Comm
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This one has had twenty-six years to soften and has arrived somewhere very good: dark
Ideal for warm-weather sipping or pairing with cuisine that bridges sweet and savory
Lorenzo Accomasso (who passed away on August 8
Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Known for their traditional winemaking—includingThis is the bottle that made Giovanni Canonica a cult. Paiagallo is his home cru, a warm slope tucked just below the village of Barolo, and he treats it the way his grandfather's generation would have: long macerations, big old Slavonian casks, minimal sulfur, no fining, no filtration, no fuss. What comes out is Nebbiolo at its most transparent pale garnet, wildly perfumed, all rose petal and sour cherry and tar, with a tannic frame that is firm