Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 1985 SO062726 Bowler GermanyAustria Intense ruby red with a

Intense ruby red with a bouquet dominated by mature fruity notes and black bilberries

and crushed volcanic rock

The Mozzatta bottling comes from a single parcel of 75-plus-year-old vines rooted in rare white clay

applying the same attention to terroir and minimal intervention that defines his family's Volnay wines

smooth fine tannins

Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 1985 SO062726 Bowler GermanyAustria Intense ruby red with aForty years old. A museum piece from Giovanni Conterno's hand when Roberto was still a teenager and the cellar was running the wines the way it had since 1974, when Giacomo bought Cascina Francia. 1985 was a great, warm vintage that produced wines of unusual concentration for the era, and Conterno's standard Cascina Francia from such a year would have been a near Monfortino grade selection in any other house. Four decades on, this is fully resolved,