2016 Beni di Batasiolo - Barolo

The Beni di Batasiolo 2016 Barolo shows pretty brightness with an easy, near-term personality. The bouquet is redolent of red cherry, cassis and dried currant. Like most of these samples from the 2016 vintage, I opened my bottles a few hours before tasting for extra aeration. The wine presents a classic Nebbiolo profile with wild berry fruit, camphor ash and pretty highlights of cured tobacco and rust. In the mouth, it offers mild intensity over a mid-weight palate. Some 40,000 cases (with 12 bottles each) were released.