Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Grinzane Cavour, 2021 SpecialSkurnikRieslingOffer with racy acidity and a

with racy acidity and a long

The wine is a burst of saltiness and texture

offering notes of candied orange peel

fermented partly whole-cluster in open-top tanks

Buttafuoco translates roughly to "sparks like fire" — a swaggering name for one of Lombardy's most overlooked reds

Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Grinzane Cavour, 2021 SpecialSkurnikRieslingOffer with racy acidity and aGiovanni Canonica works out of a small cellar beneath his house in the village of Barolo, and if you are hoping for gleaming tanks and temperature control, look elsewhere. Big old Slavonian botti, long macerations, minimal sulfur, no filtration. The wines come out perfumed, nearly translucent and completely alive, which is why traditionalists have been quietly hoarding them for years. Grinzane Cavour is the commune on the zone's eastern edge, named