This is a dark, intensely flavorful wine that doesn’t achieve its impressive flavor impact at the cost of seeming over-ripe or over-oaked. Complete and coherent, it is firmly structured but nevertheless openly and persistently flavorful thanks to the lovely impression of sweetness lent by the ripe fruit.
La Spinona Az. Agr. Di Berutti Pietro, Barbaresco (Piedmont, Italy) 2009
By Michael Franz