Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

Sury-en-Vaux and Bue

and bees doing real work in the vineyards)

Ideal for warm-weather sipping or pairing with cuisine that bridges sweet and savory

specifically—layered into rum of aged complexity

and a natural tension that translates beautifully into the glass

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Paiagallo, 2021 BDXCOUNT0125 Sury-en-Vaux and BueThis is the bottle that made Giovanni Canonica a cult. Paiagallo is his home cru, a warm slope tucked just below the village of Barolo, and he treats it the way his grandfather's generation would have: long macerations, big old Slavonian casks, minimal sulfur, no fining, no filtration, no fuss. What comes out is Nebbiolo at its most transparent pale garnet, wildly perfumed, all rose petal and sour cherry and tar, with a tannic frame that is firm