Cabutto Tenuta La Volta Barolo DOCG, 2017

Tenuta La Volta has 20 hectares of vineyards in the Barolo region on a ridge that runs from La Morra to Novello with vines perched on a variety of hillsides and expositions. Farmed by Osvaldo and Bruno Cabutto, the estate was founded by their grandfather in 1920. The 2017 has aromas of old wood, bitter cherry, marzipan with some wet earth. More raisined fruit characters show on the palate, a reflection of the dry summer which saw four months with virtually no rain (irrigation is not permitted). It has a grainy texture with some chewiness on the finish and was aged for three years in large Slavonian oak casks.