Francesco Versio, Barbaresco Vintage:2016 a brilliant wine that derives

a brilliant wine that derives from a mere four of the 45 plots that are candidates for inclusion in Cristal

but it also has the pedigree and beautiful inner structure for long cellar aging

sleek and muscular flavors that possess a lovely sense of underlying tension on the pungently saline finish

There is both good energy and delineation to the medium weight flavors that display ample minerality on the firm

Many of its peers show the inky and concentrated fruit of this hot and dry vintage

Francesco Versio, Barbaresco Vintage:2016 a brilliant wine that derivesNeive. Tasted blind. Deep, lustrous ruby. Deep, aromatic cherry fruit nose and plenty of fragrant sweet cherry on the palate. Very embryonic and long and with lots of chewy tannins and succulent acidity. Concentrated and yet elegantly built. (WS)