Siran

SiranTextbook warm cigar, cocoa and mulled currant aromas and flavors, with rich, velvety structure melding beautifully with the fruit notes while the charcoal edged finish smolders nicely. Really nice showing. Blind 2000 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2015). Drink now through 2023. 8,250 cases made. JM

humus and underbrush influences

He uses ambient years without sulfites for the fermentations followed by spontaneous malolactic fermentations and does not filter

The oak is nicely integrated here

It’s an excellent wine in a year that keeps on delivering right through the palate and hangs on for more

This isn’t quite as complex as the Grèves though that may well change with time as the track record of this wine developing well is firmly established

(92-94)/2033+

Brezza remains one of the best-kept secrets in traditionally-made Barolo

intense and persistent finish

Suave and polished to the core

with a core of warm plum and black cherry preserve flavors

this is aromatically completely different from the nose of the Clos des Forêts with a beautifully elegant and medium-toned nose suffused with highly spiced dark berry fruit liqueur

The result of this way of working is hundreds (or was it thousands