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
Burghound
BH
93
"A backward but supremely elegant, pure and refined nose features airy and lacy red Pinot fruit and delineated, intense and almost pungently mineral middle weight plus flavors that are classy and penetrating on the laser-like finish. This is a classic Taillepieds and patience will be required for it to really open up and display its full potential. An altogether lovely wine and recommended."
Jancis Robinson
JR
18
"Pale blueish(!) crimson. Quite complex, evolved nose. Fresh and vital and could only be burgundy. Very flirtatious and arguably more typically Volnay than many of the more concentrated examples. Light to medium weight and transparent. Very direct with a hint of liquorice. Polished. Racy. Compact."