Ernesto Grasso Barbaresco

A wine made by the current owner of Ca' del Baio winery, Ernesto Grasso. Beautiful, luminous and rather pale reddish-orange color. Pungent, over-aged and even rather unpleasant nose with a pronounced note of porcini mushrooms along with oxidative aromas of rancid nuts, beef consommé, some autumnal forest tones and a hint of Marsala. The wine feels rather full-bodied, dry and quite dead on the palate with old and flat flavors of pungent nutty oxidation, beef consommé, some smoke, a little …