and 2016 — universally considered one of the great Barbaresco vintages of the modern era — gave them a wine of extraordinary purity
but Louis Barruol (the Rhône hand behind Château de Saint Cosme)
The 2016 vintage—a legendary year in Bordeaux—is now at its drinking window: silky tannins
Forstberg is a limestone-rich site in the hills of Württemberg
it shows dark berry fruit
Lorenzo Accomasso, Dolcetto d'Alba, 2021 SpecialSkurnikRieslingOffer and 2016 — universally consideredThe last Dolcetto Lorenzo Accomasso ever made before his death in August 2025 at age 91. The 2021 vintage in La Morra was cooler and more classical than the warm 2020, and it shows in the bottle: a Dolcetto with snap and tension, a real backbone of acidity, and the savory bitter almond grip that marks Accomasso's hand from the first sip. As always with this tiny, traditionalist estate, everything is done by feel no shortcuts, no industrial yeast, no