Mario Giribaldi Barolo Ravera DOCG 2018
- 94
- $125
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is a vintage which imbues its wines with a pleasing elegance. A red/orange rim here, with a nose that is both fragrant and promising of that refinement. Offering florals, coffee grinds, hints of strawberry jam, dry herbs and truffles, this is finely balanced and with good length. There is an obvious and yet intriguing note of mint running throughout. Complexity is already building. A very fine Barolo which will drink beautifully for the next six to twelve years. Definitely one for those who prefer that degree of delicacy and elegance to overwhelming force in their wines.
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.
