Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Pora, 2016 OLDCAP This is a special bottling

This is a special bottling in magnums only of their oldest Pinot Noir and Gamay vines

Sourced from top Swartland vineyards

Like its sibling (Casse-Tetes)

and this is the village-level

with silky tannins that suggest this will evolve beautifully for decades

Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco Riserva Pora, 2016 OLDCAP This is a special bottlingIf you're going to start anywhere in the Produttori del Barbaresco cru lineup, start with Pora. Its vines run down toward the Tanaro river, and the wine comes out rounder and more open armed than its neighbors generous fruit up front, with the tannic spine still very much intact underneath. From the excellent 2016 vintage, this is Nebbiolo doing the full trick: wild cherry and blood orange, dried rose, leather, spice and sweet earth. Ten years in, it