Tasting Notes: The Giacomo Conterno Barolo Arione 2020 is a powerfully structured Serralunga Barolo from Roberto Conterno's prized holding in the Arione MGA. Brooding and complex on the nose, with dark cherry, licorice, dried rose, tar, and iron-laced earth. On the palate it is dense and uncompromising, with tight, grippy tannins, deep minerality, and a long, authoritative finish of tobacco, chalk, and balsamic herbs. A wine that demands patience.
Estate History: Giacomo Conterno is the most celebrated name in Barolo — a Monforte d'Alba estate founded in the early twentieth century and brought to legendary status by Giovanni Conterno, creator of the incomparable Monfortino Riserva. Today Roberto Conterno leads the estate with the same iron conviction, farming the Francia and Arione vineyards in Serralunga d'Alba — two of the appellation's most formidable and age-worthy terroirs.
