Camparo, Barolo (Piedmont, Italy) 2011

This traditionally styled wine offers a wild ride based on huge aromatics and very deep, exotic flavors that show all sorts of mushroomy, leathery, gamy characteristics.  There’s plenty of ripe fruit in the wine as well, which suggests that this won’t simply go rustic and funky all of a sudden, but this sort of wine need not be held to get complexity from bottle ageing.  Better to drink this in the near term, but first you’d better buckle up.