Marchesi di Gresy Camp Gros Martinenga Riserva Barbaresco 2015

The first glimpses of mahogany appear at this stage, suggesting an initial step to revealing its future extraordinary complexities. Again, like its sibling wines, we have a familiar roast/baked orange varietal/site stamp, with the added richness of subtle meat reduction, reminiscent of chicken fat sauce. Very enticing. Very gastronomic. This is a seriously complex wine; its clear and refined savoury stockiness suggesting anise and fennel, while the expected tannin load is about embellishing rather than overwhelming, gracefully relinquishing its command of the palate to allow the wine’s glorious flavours to remain the lasting memory.      

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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