Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 1985 SO062726 Bowler GermanyAustria With its bright acidity and

With its bright acidity and incredible balance

and crushed volcanic rock

Thirty months in mixed barrels

applying the same attention to terroir and minimal intervention that defines his family's Volnay wines

Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 1985 SO062726 Bowler GermanyAustria With its bright acidity andForty years old. A museum piece from Giovanni Conterno's hand when Roberto was still a teenager and the cellar was running the wines the way it had since 1974, when Giacomo bought Cascina Francia. 1985 was a great, warm vintage that produced wines of unusual concentration for the era, and Conterno's standard Cascina Francia from such a year would have been a near Monfortino grade selection in any other house. Four decades on, this is fully resolved,