Barolo, Brea Vigna Ca'Mia, 2022
A wine of wonderful delineation, although ripe, it has a remarkably crisp and chalky profile, with great sapidity. The vines at their oldest are up to 71 years old which means they have learned to self-regulate well against extremes. Small berries, complex and wiry, with rosemary and thyme, Brovia measures Brea as being 2.5C lower in average temperature than the rest of the Barolo zone, due to cooling breezes coming from the east. A wine Alex Sanchez describes as having great “inner pressure”. From Serralunga d’Alba, Brea is home to the oldest vines of the Brovia estate – the Ca’ Mia plot was planted in 1958. A 65-year-old monopole vineyard with a relatively high amount of limestone soils as well as clay, that faces south-southeast – it is situated on the eastern side of the commune.
critic reviews
The 2022 Barolo Brea Vigna Ca' Mia is a potent, inward wine, as it so often is. Then again, we are in Serralunga, in one of the wilder, more forested parts of the village. A wine of stature and breeding, the 2022 is going to need at least a few years to come into its own. Macerated dark cherry, sage, gravel, menthol, licorice and coffee add to an impression of somber gravitas. There's a ton of potential here.