This has an attractively restrained and focused feel with a super taut and refined edge. Aromas and flavors of fresh strawberries and wild cherries. This has impressive balance and pitch-perfect tannin ripeness. Approachable now, this will be best from 2022.

The Brovia 2015 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione (the last wine I tasted in this series of cru expressions) opens to the darkest color of this series, with a firm core of black fruit. This wine is silky and satiny in terms of texture—one of the trademarks of this sandy-soil cru in Castiglione Falletto—but don't underestimate that structural firmness that holds it tightly together. It would take nicely to veal involtini with asparagus.

Castiglione Falletto. Tasted blind. Lustrous mid ruby. Alluring cherry fruit with hints of nutmeg and minerally notes. Ripe, mouth-filling fruit with a firm tannic structure that adds tension and depth. Very long and powerful. (WS)