Elvio Cogno

Ravera Barolo 2017

The estate’s calling card, hewn of fruit from a cooler and drier section of the cru. The vines, between 60 and 70 years of age, are firmly established and thus, perform exceptionally well in warmer vintages. Always textbook. A wine for the erudite collector as much for the enthusiast. Darjeeling, strawberry, kirsch and lilac scents are tattooed across a tensile framework of mineral and leather-bound, almost chamois-like, tannins. Long and impeccably detailed. Powerful and yet, at once, virtually ethereal.