The 2016 Barolo Monvigliero is utterly spellbinding in its profoundness

chocolate and licorice with just a touch of loam

Gamy and savory notes are front and center

(35+ year old vines planted in much deeper soil interspersed with lots of gravel and aged in 33% new wood)

This is also brooding and reticent with an intensely earthy nose of both red and dark pinot fruit that is trimmed in hints of game

Bob Cabral Wines, Troubadour Pinot Noir Vintage:2016 The 2016 Barolo Monvigliero isThe 2016 Pinot Noir Troubadour is powerful and spicy. "It was hard to restrain the wines in 2016," Bob Cabral recalls. "I want ripe tannins without too much alcohol. In those Goldridge soils, you have to meter out water during the warm summers. That has been the biggest challenge over the last few years." Medium ruby, it offers alluring scents of dark cherries, cranberries, pipe tobacco, mushrooms and forest floor with wafts of violet. The medium