The 2016 Barolo Brunate is soft, perfumed and very pretty. Sweet tobacco, cedar, mint, dried flowers and anise all grace this expressive, mid-weight Barolo. Overall, this is a decidedly lightweight, perfumed style of Brunate, a site where the wines tend to be richer, deeper, and more powerful; I would prefer to drink it over the next decade, give or take.

Pale crimson. Still very sweet, fresh and flirtatious. Long and beguiling. Lovely already! (JR)

La Morra. Tasted blind. Mid ruby. Lifted nose with hints of oak and a little prickly/peppery and with quite a bit of fruit power underneath. Still very compact yet with enormous concentration and lots of juice on the finish. Plenty of grainy tannins too, but all will eventually come together with more bottle age, which this needs. (WS)