Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Serio e Battista Borgogno is

Serio e Battista Borgogno is a true traditionalist in Barolo

This one has had twenty-six years to soften and has arrived somewhere very good: dark

Ideal for warm-weather sipping or pairing with cuisine that bridges sweet and savory

and bees doing real work in the vineyards)

Lorenzo Accomasso (who passed away on August 8

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Serio e Battista Borgogno isThis is the bottle that made Giovanni Canonica a cult. Paiagallo is his home cru, a warm slope tucked just below the village of Barolo, and he treats it the way his grandfather's generation would have: long macerations, big old Slavonian casks, minimal sulfur, no fining, no filtration, no fuss. What comes out is Nebbiolo at its most transparent pale garnet, wildly perfumed, all rose petal and sour cherry and tar, with a tannic frame that is firm