Oddero Barolo 2022
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A 1986 exchange in Gianni Brera's sports column in La Repubblica floated a theory: Hemingway would never have turned to hard liquor had he known the Barolo of the Oddero brothers. The house's classic Barolo is pure Nebbiolo built on clay and limestone crus: Bricco Chiesa, the family's home vineyard below the church of Santa Maria della Neve, and Capalot in La Morra, with Fiasco in Castiglione Falletto. Each site ferments separately in stainless steel for about twenty days and ages apart in large Austrian and Slavonian oak casks before the spring blend and a rest in bottle. The 2022 wears a hot, dry year lightly: wild cherry and cassis, a perfume of rose petal, and a dusty, stony line running through a fresh finish. The cellar also holds a far older resident: a Miocene fossil fish unearthed at Bricco Chiesa in 1928, when a well was dug there by hand.
