Barolo, Cannubi, 2009

Name: Barolo, Cannubi
Brand: Paolo Scavino
Price: 936 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Slick liquorice spice and black fruit flavours, notes of cherry bramble and sweet asian spices, svelte rich but sufficiently lively and brilliant.One of the vintage’s most stylish, seductive and complete Barolos. Stunning. A small parcel from which only 300 cases are produced.This is what the Scavinos call “Cannubi Cannubi”. (Their parcel is at the very heart of the Cannubi vineyard with a limestone and sandy soil and south-east exposure, lending the wine a combination of silky fruit and structure.) Cannubi is one of the historic crus of Barolo, in fact such was the fame of the vineyard in the past that wines here were sold as “Cannubio” before Barolo as a defined vineyard region even existed.

critic reviews

93+/100Stephen Tanzer,Vinous

(spends its first year in barriques, 15% new, then its second year in big casks): Deep red. Dark, rather modern aromas of black cherry, licorice, violet, espresso and minerals. Quite tight and primary but a bit monolithic today, almost like a barrel sample. But shows excellent density to its dark cassis, floral and mineral flavors. Finishes with building tannins and terrific lingering fruit. This will need a minimum of four to six years in the cellar.

date of review 11/2013