Brezza, Barolo Sarmassa, 1999 MNTLCNO0124 One of Ribeira Sacra's quietly

One of Ribeira Sacra's quietly thrilling new names

Brovia's traditional approach—long maceration and aging in large neutral oak casks—lets the vineyard's south-facing clay-limestone soils sing without oak imprint

Cap Corse Blanc starts from a mistelle base of Vermentinu and Muscat a Petits Grains

Bottled at 100 proof

salivating

Brezza, Barolo Sarmassa, 1999 MNTLCNO0124 One of Ribeira Sacra's quietlyIf Cannubi is Brezza's perfume, Sarmassa is its structure. Just across the Barolo village hill, Sarmassa carries more clay and less sand than its famous sibling the wines come out denser, more muscular, with a longer arc into maturity. Enzo Brezza (trained under his father Oreste and his godfather Bartolo Mascarello) was firmly in command by 1999, and the great classical vintage gave him exactly the raw material his traditional house style is built