Produttori Barbaresco, Barbaresco Montestefano

Produttori Barbaresco, Barbaresco MontestefanoNA

This offers a big step up in aromatic elegance with its pure and very spicy mix of red berry liqueur and dark cherry aromas that complement well the seductively textured middle weight flavors blessed with an abundance of dry extract that buffers the moderately firm tannins and coats the palate on the sneaky long finish

This sauvignon blanc is very impressive with a layered density of dried-lemon and mineral character

it’s almost a blend of the Chaumes and Rognets with its layered ripe black fruit aromas and massive

dense and powerful flavors possess incredible intensity

There is excellent volume to the medium-bodied and admirably concentrated flavors yet this is not really a powerful wine so much as it is focused and harmonious

the 2018 Pinot Noir Knox Alexander is very spicy on the nose with aromas of wild red and black berries

The tannins are silky and polished throughout

The refined middle weight flavors are also cool and energetic with very fine depth and length on the balanced finish that is unusually dry for the vintage

with its dense and muscular big-bodied flavors that terminate in a beautifully complex if mildly edgy and dry finale

it would be unfortunate to leave so much upside potential unrealized and thus I would advise waiting for at least 5 more years first though it should easily be capable of rewarding 8 to 10

Mazuelo and Graciano

well-balanced and mildly austere finish that is firm enough to merit at least a few years of cellaring