Barolo, San Lorenzo di Verduno, 2017

Spicier, more brooding and structured than the Barolo Comune di Verduno, but velvety with dark berry fruit infused with notes of cloves and orange peel. San Lorenzo is all about breadth, fullness and openness, this particular incarnation is just perhaps a little more muscular and serious than usual, and will need a year or two more in bottle than the come-hither Barolo Verduno. A Verduno vineyard near Monvigliero but less steep and with very different soils – silt and sand rather than the white limestone of Monvigliero. After a month of gentle maceration the wine is then aged for 3 years in large wooden vats.