This recipe has been painstakingly perfected — it's sweetened with dates
an old Portuguese style co-fermenting white and red grapes into a light
Buttafuoco translates roughly to "sparks like fire" — a swaggering name for one of Lombardy's most overlooked reds
The wine is a burst of saltiness and texture
fermented partly whole-cluster in open-top tanks
Giovanni Canonica, Barolo Grinzane Cavour, 2021 SpecialSkurnikRieslingOffer This recipe has been painstakinglyGiovanni 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