2019
6x75cl
DP
£434.42
vintage
portfolio
2019
6x75cl
DP
£434.42
Ravera shows the verticality of the vintage with its tighter blueberries, blackcurrants and herbaceous elements. Fresh with edgy tannins, the wine keeps that Scavino hallmark of creamy fruit so that nothing feels disjointed. Fermented and aged in large oak tine for two years. First vintage 2015. The Scavino parcel is all in Novello and comprises a good 2.7ha. They are in the highest part of the vineyard, east facing at over 400m elevation.
One of Italy’s great Estates with holdings in Barolos finest Crus, Cannubi, Bric del Fiasc and Rocche dell’Annuziata. Along with Elio Altare, Enrico Scavino is surely responsible for the great reputation Piedmont has today. Since the 1980s he has been crafting benchmark modern Barolo. Through meticulous vineyard work, fermentations and finishing in a mixture of French oak barriques and the larger traditional ‘Botti’ casks, Enrico makes svelte wines whose polish and sophistication enhance rather than shroud their character and typicity. Their flagship must surely be the Bric del Fiasc, one of the earlier examples of a Barolo single vineyard bottling, the first vintage being 1978. It has a sun-blanched south-western exposure and one of the region's most complex soil compositions - a complex mixture of blue grey marne, sand, limestone and redder sandstone - the coming together of the Tortonian soils of La Morra & Barolo and the Helvetian soils of the Serralunga valley. This is a wine the embodies Castiglione: Powerful and long lived, spicy yet with more elegant highlights of bright red fruit. As complete a Barolo as you will find.
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