Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva 1971 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider 2018 is the modern Burgundy

2018 is the modern Burgundy vintage in its most generous mode — a warm

The wine fermented with native yeasts in concrete eggs and aged nine months on lees

and fresh-cut grass

and the fine thread of minerality Lafon always seems to find

Giacomo Borgogno & Figli Barolo Riserva 1971 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider 2018 is the modern BurgundyA piece of Barolo history in the bottle. Giacomo Borgogno & Figli, founded in 1761, is one of the oldest houses in the region and was the official wine at the 1861 dinner celebrating Italy's unification. In the 1920s Cesare Borgogno began holding Barolo Riserva for around twenty years before release, and the estate still keeps a deep library of these traditionally made wines. This 1971 Riserva is Nebbiolo from a great vintage, raised the old way in