2017 Brovia, Barolo, Rocche di Castiglione Cuvee_Dinavolino Bianco Claude and Katherine Blankiet’s Paradise

Claude and Katherine Blankiet’s Paradise Hills Vineyard is managed with a focus on high-density planting and precise viticultural stewardship to produce an estate-bottled expression of concentrated phenolic depth

intensely mineral wine

It helps that his estate is lucky to hold a large collection of old vines in and around Gevrey

now dedicated to reviving ancient

2017 Brovia, Barolo, Rocche di Castiglione Cuvee_Dinavolino Bianco Claude and Katherine Blankiet’s Paradise2017 was a warm, dry vintage that needed a masterful hand at the helm. An unholy chain of eventsearly budbreak caused by an unusually warm March, followed by frost in Aprilseverely challenged vines. In vintages like 2017, its the older vines that thrive. Brovias old vine 2017s, from their Castiglione Falleto estate, are just beginning to reveal themselvesand theyre lovely indeed. Its marvelous how sometimes lifes challenges end up yielding nice