Tasting Notes: The Giacomo Conterno Barolo Riserva Monfortino 2019 is Italy's most legendary Barolo — a wine of extraordinary depth, complexity, and generational longevity from the Francia vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba. The 2019, aged for seven years in large Slavonian oak before release, opens with a sweeping bouquet of dried rose, tar, licorice, tobacco, truffle, and iron-tinged earth. On the palate it is immense yet perfectly balanced, with monumental tannins, crystalline acidity, and a finish of almost impossible length and mineral precision. A once-in-a-generation wine.
Estate History: Giacomo Conterno is the most storied name in all of Barolo — a Monforte d'Alba estate founded in the early twentieth century and immortalized by Giovanni Conterno, whose Monfortino Riserva became the benchmark by which all Barolo is measured. Aged for a minimum of seven years in large Slavonian oak casks, Monfortino is released only in the finest vintages. Today Roberto Conterno, Giovanni's son, leads the estate from the Francia vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, continuing one of the most uncompromising legacies in Italian wine with absolute fidelity.
