Barolo, Lazzarito, 2009

Lazzarito is from the Serralunga commune and is Vietti’s biggest single holding, at 2.5 hectares, however they still only produce 6000 bottles for the single cru cuvée itself. Along with Villero, this is one of their most concentrated cuvées. The soils are limestone dominated. The 2009 is intense and brooding, offering dark fruit, stone, mineral rock and liquorice spice characteristics. Bold, full-blooded and a little closed but with all of the elements and material to suggest a very long life.