Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 A fresh expression of Cabernet

A fresh expression of Cabernet Sauvignon from biodynamic vineyards in Cissac-Médoc

Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

Lorenzo Accomasso (who passed away on August 8

and bees doing real work in the vineyards)

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

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 A fresh expression of CabernetThis 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