Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

A challenging vintage that tested even the finest producers—and an opportunity to see what traditional Barolo mastery achieves when nature is difficult

A fresh expression of Cabernet Sauvignon from biodynamic vineyards in Cissac-Médoc

This one has had twenty-six years to soften and has arrived somewhere very good: dark

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Sury-en-Vaux and BueThis is the bottle that made Giovanni Canonica a cult. Paiagallo is his home cru, a warm slope tucked just below the village of Barolo, and he treats it the way his grandfather's generation would have: long macerations, big old Slavonian casks, minimal sulfur, no fining, no filtration, no fuss. What comes out is Nebbiolo at its most transparent pale garnet, wildly perfumed, all rose petal and sour cherry and tar, with a tannic frame that is firm