Serious Barbaresco here. The house likes the elegance offered by 2018 and 2020, with the 2016 the favourite (it is everyone’s favourite), but this is a fine example of the style with some heft. Drink those other vintages while this emerges from its cocoon. And for the future, keep an eye on 2021. The wine saw time in barriques. Notes of strawberries, hints of florals and bay leaves, with some truffle and darker berry notes as well. Good persistence, fine balance and soft, lengthy tannins. A decade at least ahead of it. Delicious drinking.

Attractive orange-peel, green-strawberry and mushroom aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with firm tannins that give a vertical feeling to the end of the palate. Give it a couple of years to soften. Try after 2024.