Renato Corino, Barolo Vv

Renato Corino, Barolo VvOffers aromas of dried violet, with blackberry and cherry. Full bodied and chewy, yet stylish and flavorful. Needs time. A tiny bit hollow midpalate. Best after 2009. 200 cases made. JS

with all its smoke

blueberry and fruitcake flavors smoothly blend depth and energy

A lightly spicy but notably earthy nose of a ripe and very fresh array of mixed red berries gives way to rich and utterly delicious flavors that possess excellent volume before terminating in a seductively textured finish that is shaped by dense but fine tannins

This is excellent and well worth exploring

It has a perfumed bouquet of bilberry and mulberry fruit

its sophistication rippling with nuance rather than sheer vulgar power

it is not an ingredient

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This is an ambitious Croft that could become a future legend or might trip over its untrammeled ambition

This is a fabulous showing from the 2005

while the Vecchie Viti is all muscle

mocha and spicy dark currant