Professional Reviews
Decanter
Wine Enthusiast
Details
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Grape Variety
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Vintage
2013
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Size
750ml
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Farming Practice
Organic
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Sweetness
Dry
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Body
Medium Bodied
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.
D
93
"Brezza's 1.5 hectares in the original heart of Cannubi boasts a superb southeast exposure on silty, sandy soil. After a long one month maceration, the wine is aged for two years in Slavonian oak casks. This had a slighter frame than the estate's Sarmassa cru, with fine but still firm tannins and succulent acidity. Though not the most profound Cannubi, it has wonderful elegance with redcurrant, liquorice and sweet herbs carrying the finish."
WE
98
"One of the best expressions from the classic Cannubi vineyard area, this fragrant red is all about finesse, opening with enticing scents of perfumed berry, iris, rose, chopped herb, baking spice and new leather. The vibrant palate boasts structure as well as an almost ethereal elegance, delivering succulent red cherry, crushed strawberry, cinnamon and licorice wrapped in refined tannins. Bright acidity lends impeccable balance."