Ferdinando Principiano Barolo di Serralunga 2017 Bottle:12 with the wine showing balance

with the wine showing balance and an enveloping character

Bright toasted hazelnut and coffee gelato aromas with a satiny soft moderately sweet medium-to-full body and a long seamless cappuccino and honey finish

with 'balsamic' (anise

These vibrant fruit characteristics arecarried on to the palate with hints of thyme

Ferdinando Principiano Barolo di Serralunga 2017 Bottle:12 with the wine showing balanceThis is fabulous, old style Barolo. Not a deeply colored wine, but wow, what a bouquet, and what a presence it has on the palate! There's a clear analogy to the wines from Domaine Dujac from the era that Jacques Seysses was making the wines. They were never deep in colour but they always had tremendous complexity. That's because neither Pinot Noir nor Nebbiolo need dark color for the wine to have depth of flavor and complexity. A brilliant bottle of