Barolo 2019 artisan wine and minerality

and minerality

You can almost hear it—the whisper of the Mediterranean breeze

the Aglianico wines of Taurasi were some of the favorites of Roman Emperor Augustus and Empress Livia

Long fermentations in barrel

Barolo 2019 artisan wine and mineralityOn the old road into Annunziata, that small, hushed hamlet of La Morra, the fog doesnt roll in so much as arrivelike a curtain drawn for a private performance. This is monk country. These slopes once belonged to a Benedictine convent; the land has been tended for centuries with the kind of patience modern life has forgotten. And here, in a working farmhouse that still feels more like a vow than a business, Giuseppe Grasso and his family make Barolo