Gianluigi Lano is that winemaker of myth, immortalized by that Orson Welles commercial who spoke of a winery that "sold no wine before its time": a man who has no problem holding back his wines for extra years till he deems them ready... as here, with his prized "Cru" vineyard of Rocche Massalupo. Lano's organically farmed vineyards are untamed, wild-looking and positively o'erbrimming with life... and you can taste it in the bottle. Classic aromas of red cherry, currant, blood orange, tobacco, dried rose petals, and a hint of tar. This is old-school Piedmontese *soul* that all but whisper-shouts its sense of place to the heavens.
