Barolo - Nebbiolo - Barolo, IT - 15
 
Other famous Barolo houses choose to stick to the new French Barriques for cautious efficiencies sake; these are newer-style fruitier barrels that can also be drunk young, yet still retain their tannin. Danillo Drocco creates new-style interesting, and complex wines of incredible character, and while he doesn’t deny the arability of the botti wines, he uses barriques to create more perfumed wines that are always in-style, and slender, with complex aromas. The standard flag bearer opens with some espresso note, but quells these sometimes overbearing presences with those aromas of black fruit and road tar. The classic rose petal is also well integrated with aromas of lilac and rosemary.