Notes of sour cherries, dried blood orange, tree bark, red licorice and dried flowers. Full-bodied and structured with firm, sandy tannins. Spicy notes at the end. Try from 2026.

The 2019 Barolo Brunate shows a linear and quite firm character with dark cherry, rose, crushed flint and balanced spice. The vintage is built tight and strong, and that added textural density bodes well for the wine's future bottle evolution. This is a production of 9,000 bottles.

The 2018 Barolo Brunate shows a moment of ripeness with dark cherry and plum, but it also settles quickly in the glass to reveal pretty layering and complexity that comes into better focus with time. There are layers of smoke, tar, spice, cumin and licorice. You also get dried rose and lilac. This wine does a good job capturing the energy and ripeness of the vintage.

The 2014 Barolo Brunate (with 10,000 bottles made) is a more robust and gutsy wine next to Francesco Rinaldi & Figli's Cannubi expression. The Brunate offers bolder fruit intensity, coupled with more prominent oak tones of spice, smoke and campfire ash. But like the other new releases from this estate, the wine finishes on a dry, astringent note that will probably never fully integrate even with extended cellar aging.

Showing bold intensity, thick lines and lasting determination, the 2012 Barolo Brunate lives up to the expectations of this grand cru vineyard site in Barolo. On first inspection, there are some ripe fruit tones of blackberry preserves and cherry liqueur. They are well contained, however. To the palate, the wine is shapely and generous in terms of its volume.