Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 1985
Forty years old. A museum piece from Giovanni Conterno's hand — when Roberto was still a teenager and the cellar was running the wines the way it had since 1974, when Giacomo bought Cascina Francia. 1985 was a great, warm vintage that produced wines of unusual concentration for the era, and Conterno's standard Cascina Francia from such a year would have been a near-Monfortino-grade selection in any other house. Four decades on, this is fully resolved, deeply tertiary Barolo from the most coveted traditional cellar in Piedmont. The window is now — there is no further development to wait for. A collector's wine in every sense, to be opened slowly and discussed at length.
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Forty years old. A museum piece from Giovanni Conterno's hand — when Roberto was still a teenager and the cellar was running the wines the way it had since 1974, when Giacomo bought Cascina Francia. 1985 was a great, warm vintage that produced wines of unusual concentration for the era, and Conterno's standard Cascina Francia from such a year would have been a near-Monfortino-grade selection in any other house. Four decades on, this is fully resolved, deeply tertiary Barolo from the most coveted traditional cellar in Piedmont. The window is now — there is no further development to wait for. A collector's wine in every sense, to be opened slowly and discussed at length.
