Pupille, Saffredi

Pupille, SaffrediNA

Lemon to gold ingot

don’t mind a year without having to make the significant but very worthwhile investment acquiring these wines requires

The 2006 Barolo San Rocco is sensual and enveloping

The 2010 Gazin has a delightful bouquet with more red than black fruit (raspberry

chargrill and scorched earth

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

Mild reduction pushes the underlying fruit to the background but I doubt that it will persist

crushed chalk and then a silky citric grip

There is good richness to the supple

This is a bit firmer than the Combottes with even more evident minerality on the delicious

It s hard to know where to start with the San Rocco

it has a firm