Aldo Conterno, Barolo Bussia Riserva, 1988 CS20230815 or for California drinkers craving

or for California drinkers craving restraint over ripeness

minerality-driven

perched high in the hills of Radda in Chianti

A grower-Champagne built around a perpetual reserve — the kind of quiet technical detail that explains why J

and by 1999 Enzo Brezza (godson and protege of the late Bartolo Mascarello) was a decade into his run as head winemaker

Aldo Conterno, Barolo Bussia Riserva, 1988 CS20230815 or for California drinkers cravingA nearly forty year old Barolo out of a private cellar, fully mature and ready to pour. Aldo Conterno left the family estate in the late 1960s and built his own domaine on the Bussia slopes of Monforte d'Alba, where clay marl and calcareous soils at 320 to 450 meters give Nebbiolo the cru's signature combination of perfume and grip; the wines got long macerations and years in large Slavonian botti before release, which is what has carried this bottle.