BAROLO 2013: A RETROSPECTIVE
‘The upshot of the 2013 growing season was that the wines, while structured, were more marked by perfume and finesse than by power’
Young Barolo is far easier to taste than it used to be, and probably all the better for it. It has little to do with the varying approaches of traditionalists and modernists, and everything to do with extraction: grapes tend to be picked at higher ripeness (and thus with riper tannins too) and extraction
