Cascina Luisin, Barbaresco Sori Paolin

Cascina Luisin, Barbaresco Sori PaolinThe 2012 Barbaresco Paolin is a smart and simple wine with dark cherry and blackberry at its core. This is a loosely knit expression of Nebbiolo with pretty softness and textural richness that wraps thickly over the palate.

As one might reasonably expect this is notably more elegant than the old vines Gevrey with its ripe but cool and airy array of essence of black cherry

but they are increasingly worth the effort

Glowing colour

Ready to drink

whose grapes were shriveled healthy and picked with 18

with a beam of cherry persevering on the long aftertaste

with good acids

(25+ year old vines aged in 25% new wood)

As a three-year-old wine (i

It has all the blueberries

This is sufficiently forward that it could be enjoyed young

with fine-boned phenolic structure