James Suckling sits down with Pio Cesare proprietor Federica Boffa and winemaker Cesare Benvenuto to debate the virtues of the 2020 classic in Piedmont, Italy, notably for Barolo and Barbaresco. Benvenuto mentioned it “is kind of a contemporary classic” and described the property’s 2020 Barbaresco and Barolo releases as “elegant” and on par with benchmark years of the previous like 1998. He added that the 2020 wines achieved “purity of fruit” and can give pleasure early whereas evolving gracefully.

James praised the wines’ steadiness and finesse, drawing parallels to the classics of Pio Cesare’s historical past. “One factor that strikes me with the 2020 classic is that purity of fruit. The fruit is so stunning in ’20 and it has stunning tannins. It jogs my memory of like a contemporary 2000 and even ’98,” James mentioned. “The wines have such magnificence, and on the similar time they do have construction they usually’re stunning to drink now however in addition they will stay a very long time.”

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