Elio Sandri, Barolo Riserva Perno, 2018 so081425 new summer arrivals The 2022 vintage captures the

The 2022 vintage captures the region's signature savory complexity—crushed leaves

The estate is organic

all planted between 1960 and 1980

and at this point it's entering a lovely mature window where the fruit has given way to dried-flower

while the finish is extraordinarily long and layered

Elio Sandri, Barolo Riserva Perno, 2018 so081425 new summer arrivals The 2022 vintage captures theThis is the Sandri Riserva for people who would rather not wait fifteen years. Elio Sandri farms 7. 5 hectares at Cascina Disa in Monforte d'Alba's Perno cru and makes wine the way his neighbors' grandfathers did: cement fermentation, long aging in big Slavonian botti, no fining, no filtration, sulfur only at bottling. 2018 was a cooler, more classically proportioned year in Barolo, and the Riserva shows it, perfumed and red fruited where the