Barolo, Cerretta, Vigna Bricco, 2016

As you'd expect, a completely different profile to the other wines, and this is not just vintage variation at play - there is that distinctive Cerretta blood orange character and sturdy, dense Serralunga tannins. Meaty, compact but smooth, dark fruit coupled with orange zest and iron notes. Powerful but composed and in perfect equilibrium. A fine Serralunga vineyard produced for the first time by Altare in the 2006 vintage, Cerretta is made and aged the same way as the estate's other Barolos, 24 months in a third new oak but with an extra two-year bottle age before release. Less than 5000 bottles are made a year.