Barolo, Villero, 2021

Villero offers a beautiful, knock-out nose of fresh flowers and sweet red fruits. It is layered and lacy and floating. Gentle initially but it grows in stature the more you sit with it. Powerful on the palate, with vigour and breadth and warmer feeling notes of anise, camphor and spice. Villero has a higher density of tannin than the more vertical, lively Rocche. Power matched with finesse and seriously long. Brovia’s vine age here is 62 years old, planted on a good proportion of hard clay under sand. Southwest facing at 300m, Villero has less air circulation and receives the warmer afternoon sun. Aged in large used oak casks for two years.