2016 Barbaresco Pora Riserva

From a classic vintage with only 2,500 bottles made, the 2016 Barbaresco Riserva Pora brings all that Nebbiolo intensity home. The wine plays with its complexity, straddling a point in which there is plenty of primary fruit but also revealing evolved tones of resin, smoke and black licorice. Those contrasting sides give this wine a unique personality, but ultimately, I feel as if the wine pulls a bit stronger toward the more evolved and aged side of the Nebbiolo spectrum.