leather and tobacco add shades of nuance throughout

along with suggestions of fresh mushroom and white truffle

this offers good potential for drinking over the next decade – but no further

graceful Barolo Cascina Francia looks to be accessible relatively early

Pingus Vintage:2020 leather and tobacco add shadesI was really looking forward to the bottled version of the 2018 Pingus after a great showing of the cask sample last year. Part of the wine matured in 20,000 liter oak casks, so it's not all barrique. This is the first time they used the vats, and based on the results, Sisseck thinks in the future Pingus will be around 50% in oak vats. The Pingus vines were planted in 1929 in two different sectors of the village of La Horra, Barroso and San Cristobal