Barbaresco, Sori San Lorenzo, 2007
Here the clay-limestone soils are the deepest of the three Barbaresco Crus. The Tuffeau limestone layer is at its lowest here. A muscular and powerful Barbaresco but an expressive one, too. The most complex array of flavours of the Barbarescos - notes of flowers and wild herbs mingling with woody spices brambles and hints of strawberry. Layered, deep, big flavours with plenty of drive carrying them forward. Clearly less ready and knit together in its youth than the other two Crus, such is the force and raw power of the wine, but it has all of the stuffing and structure to suggest a long life. Fermentation and maceration is for 3 weeks followed by 24 months in oak barrels - one year in tonneaux and one year in large casks.
critic reviews
The 2007 Langhe Sorì San Lorenzo is perhaps the most massive, virile wine in this lineup, and accordingly it will require the most time. Tannic and austere at the outset, the wine gradually opens to reveal staggering richness and depth in its dark fruit. The wine turns more elegant in the glass, revealing a myriad of black fruit, tar, licorice, spices and scorched earth in a dazzling display of class and elegance. This is one for the ages.