Langhe Nebbiolo

Nine months later and it's still fighting - the nose a bit closed, the palate all elbows. Same register underneath: cherry, tea leaf, dried flowers, earth, with grainy tannins and acidity that still nips. None of that stops it from being beautiful and dangerously quaffable. Absolutely delicious - the class was never in question, only the timing.

It's still wearing its teenage angst like a badge. Rustic and rusty, with tea leaves, cherry, touch of flowers, and proper earth. The tannins are granular and still clenched tight, and that acidity bites harder than it needs to right now. There are painful moments, sure - the wine literally makes you wince sometimes. But beneath the roughness, you can feel the class. This has that stylish severity that good Nebbiolo does so well. Right now, it's cool but confrontational, like it's daring you to love it anyway. And honestly? I do.