Mario Giribaldi Barolo Cerviano Merli Riserva 2016
- 97
- $125
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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Amongst an array of stellar vintages over the last decade and more, none surpass 2016 – it is already legendary. This vineyard is just four metres in distance from the Ravera. A deep red/ maroon, the nose offers strawberries and florals, notes of coffee grinds, truffles and cigar boxes, hints of bay leaves and roast meats. This is fresh, focused, supple, lingering and utterly delicious. Fabulously complex, this is a wonderful Barolo for enjoying over the next couple of decades. The team talk of it offering a “heart-shaped palate”. Appealing cherry notes emerge and there is already some development, of course, but plenty more to come. A stunning wine.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
