While we are fortunate that the fashion for big & bold, flashy & opulent has seen its day in Barolo, that doesn't mean that every traditionally made Barolo manages to achieve the harmony and elegance that we seek—but Brezza delivers.
The wines from this address have always been good, but they've become truly fine in recent years. Enzo is the driving force behind the huge step up in quality that this old estate has taken in the past decade or so, as well as their conversion to organic viticulture. He makes unfailingly honest and delicate wines of purpose.
Brezza's wines are all from hand-harvested estate fruit and are fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. The Baroli are aged in 3,000L untoasted Slavonian oak botti. None of the wines are fined or filtered. The results are classic beauties of red fruit and charm.
Professional Reviews
Antonio Galloni
AG93
"The 2012 Barolo Sarmassa is the most tannic of the Brezza 2012s as well as one of the most powerful 2012s I tasted on my fall trip. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2012 is likely to require at least a few years to fully blossom. When it does, it should be pretty special. In 2012, Brezza did not bottle their flagship Sarmassa Vigna Bricco, all of the fruit went into the Sarmassa bottling. Today, the Sarmassa is decidedly closed, dark and brooding, but it could turn out to be one of the hidden gems of the year."
