Brovia, Barolo DOCG

Today’s electrifying red answers the question, What if a top Barolo estate combined the power and elegance of four separate Grand Cru-equivalent vineyards—“Villero,” “Rocche,” “Brea,” and “Bricco Fiasco”—plus one of the region’s best and most balanced modern vintages, and channeled it all into one show-stopping wine? The answer is today’s 2013 Barolo from Brovia, which appears poised to be a modern epic—already displaying hauntingly dark fruit, deep minerality, and luxuriously fine-grained tannins. Barolo’s Brovia family is one of the region’s most widely praised superstars. Vintage releases are met with perennially gushing critical praise and feverish demand from collectors and high-end restaurants. Especially in 2013, a vintage whose wines Jancis Robinson, MW calls “equivalent in quality to the already legendary 2010s,” this elite wine is not to be missed; it is just the second 2013 Barolo we’ve offered thus far on SommSelect, but I can assure you there will be many more to come. Thi