Olek Bondonio - Barbaresco 'Roncagliette' DOCG - 2022

It’s spicy and peppery, almost a smoky paprika thing, juicy dark cherry and raspberry, liquorice and almond paste, dried flowers, with just a smidge of lift in the pear drops department. It’s medium-bodied, as is the way mostly with this producer, fleshy and ripe in cherry and red fruits, raspberry in particular, again some curry spice is a theme, a coolness to acidity, something of a grainy chew to tannin, a little cranberry, with a sandstone tannin finish of excellent length. It’s a lovely wine. More loose-knit and elemental than in some years, but carries the signature of vineyard so well. 94 Points Gary Walsh, The Wine Front