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• Elio Grasso 2017 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera

  Monforte D'alba, Piedmont

  Red wine from Italy

  Drinking window: 2025 - 2042

• Grasso's 2017 Barolo Gavarini Chiniera is fabulous. In fact, the Gavarini is easily one of the wines of the vintage because it retains all of its classic signatures, which is also the sign of a first-class vineyard. Bright and vibrant in the glass, the Gavarini pulses with energy. Crushed red flowers, mint, chalk, white pepper, cinnamon and orange peel give the 2017 a super-classic Nebbiolo profile, as expressed in a relatively high-altitude site. The precision and finesse of the tannins - so hard to find in 2017- elevates the Gavarini into the realm of the sublime. 

• Antonio Galloni. Tasting date: January 2021

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