Barolo Scarrone Rocche Rivera, 2020

Radiant redcurrant-like fruit with mineral, stony inflections and succulent, sweet strawberries, the Rocche Rivera is perhaps less immediately complex and expansive on the nose than the regular Classico, instead it speaks to the purity and finesse of the single cru model. Elegant, long and effusive, it is more harmonious, ethereal and less tannic than the Classico today. Rocche Rivera is the historic name for a little-known plot planted in the early 1990s in the Scarrone vineyard MGA. It is effectively a continuation of the famous Rocche vineyard of Castiglione, sitting above and to the right of Roagna’s Pira. The poor soils of sandy limestone with some clay, as well as east facing exposure, make for a wine that favours elegance, freshness and minerality.