Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 and bees doing real work

and bees doing real work in the vineyards)

Lorenzo Accomasso (who passed away on August 8

Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

and a natural tension that translates beautifully into the glass

replanted in 1888 by Senator George Hearst after phylloxera

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 and bees doing real workThis is the bottle that made Giovanni Canonica a cult. Paiagallo is his home cru, a warm slope tucked just below the village of Barolo, and he treats it the way his grandfather's generation would have: long macerations, big old Slavonian casks, minimal sulfur, no fining, no filtration, no fuss. What comes out is Nebbiolo at its most transparent pale garnet, wildly perfumed, all rose petal and sour cherry and tar, with a tannic frame that is firm