Luciano Sandrone, Barolo Vigne other_regions A wonderfully expressive and broad-ranging

A wonderfully expressive and broad-ranging nose offers up notes of plums

Kirsch liqueur

even at the first sniff of the bouquet

Underneath all of that plush fruit is a stony core of structure and myriad spicy complexities that should sustain it for decades to come

being very careful not to dry out the wine

Luciano Sandrone, Barolo Vigne other_regions A wonderfully expressive and broad-rangingLuciano Sandrone and his daughter Barbara tell me that the 2014 harvest needs explaining. Many are quick to dismiss it given the difficulties of the growing season that saw abundant rain, hail and bombe d'acqua, or "water bombs," which are a dangerous phenomenon with intense rainfall in a very small radius. But hard work does pay off. The Sandrone family employed 38 people for farming, when the average harvest requires only 22 pairs of vineyard hands.