This wine is usually very tight and woody when released, and there’s plenty of fancy oak showing in the 2010 rendition, but also a lot of deep, layered fruit that is clearly up to the challenge of counterbalancing the wood. Always a wine for the cellar, this shows wonderful power and inner energy, and may someday surpass even the sensational 2004 Sori Ginestra from this house.
Conterno Fantino, Barolo (Piedmont, Italy) 2010
By Michael Franz