Olivier Riviere, Losares Vintage:2015 baking spice and wild herb

baking spice and wild herb accents in this sinewy Barolo

The top release from the estate

This too is going to need at least a few years to unwind and better flesh out

This impeccably well-balanced effort should reward at least 10 years of cellar time and is very much a Montrachet of power but also refinement

Drink or hold

Olivier Riviere, Losares Vintage:2015 baking spice and wild herbThere was no 2014 of Losares, so he jumped from the initial 2013 to the 2015 Losares. There will be no 2017 because it was lost to frost. This is always a generous, round and lush wine, especially now that I compare it with the new Pozo Alto. It's mostly Tempranillo with a 5% blend of other grapes from a vineyard planted in 1930, and it fermented with 20% full clusters. It matured in 600 liter oak barrels for 18 months. 800 bottles were filled in June