Brunate gives Barolo that prized combination of depth
100% Sauvignon Blanc Musque clone
The 2021 vintage is a stunner: a cool
offering notes of candied orange peel
fermented partly whole-cluster in open-top tanks
Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Grinzane Cavour, 2021 SpecialSkurnikRieslingOffer Brunate gives Barolo that prizedGiovanni Canonica works out of a small cellar beneath his house in the village of Barolo, and if you are hoping for gleaming tanks and temperature control, look elsewhere. Big old Slavonian botti, long macerations, minimal sulfur, no filtration. The wines come out perfumed, nearly translucent and completely alive, which is why traditionalists have been quietly hoarding them for years. Grinzane Cavour is the commune on the zone's eastern edge, named