Guido Porro Vigna Lazzairasco, Barolo DOCG, Italy 2019 Melon de Bourgogne Colour: Straw yellow

Colour: Straw yellow

lively acidity and velvety tannins come together beautifully at the elegant finish to make this the best wine from this producer in modern times

Linear and delicious

persistent citrus and orchard fruit against a deeply earthen

expressive black and blue fruit

Guido Porro Vigna Lazzairasco, Barolo DOCG, Italy 2019 Melon de Bourgogne Colour: Straw yellowThis is a superb wine, tasted immediately after the more precocious, younger vine, redder fruited S. Caterina. Full bodied as any Barolo is, but savory, taut and detailed, which only the best examples are. Extreme focus on pithy, beautifully shaped chamois tannins. Darker cherry, thyme, leather, tapenade and forestry notes of spruce, as well as more exotic hints of sandalwood, with a campfire allure lingering long. This is an excellent showing.