Barolo, 2013
Explosive, well-defined fruit tannins with floral violet and rose highlights. Cool and crisp berry flavours with notes of sage. Bright, gripping and clear-cut. Beautifully transparent and great length of flavour. Most of this comes from the younger vines (25 years old!) of the very fine Brea vineyard aswell as the left over wine from the estate's top crus that won't fit into their own separate barrels, much of which is Rocche. Quite some regular Barolo!
critic reviews
Brovia's 2013 Barolo is gorgeous. Deep, ample and beautifully layered in the glass, it possesses terrific expansiveness in every dimension. An exotic bouquet laced with hints of orange peel, cinnamon, pomegranate, kirsch and mint melds into a core of rich red stone fruit. This one of the best straight Barolos readers will come across. It is built on a core of fruit from the Brea Cru in Serralunga (the part outside the Ca' Mia parcel), with the addition of about 30% juice left over after the casks for the single-vineyard Barolos have been filled. The 2013 is one of the very finest values in high-end wine. Don't miss it.