Chateau Thivin Reverdon BrouillyMore autumnal and earthy in tone, this opens with baked cranberry, red apple skin, and damson, layered with dried rose hip, bay leaf, and warm gravel after rain. The palate is rounded but composed, with sapid red fruit and a gently savory core carried by pliant, loamy tannins and a quietly energizing acid driven lift that keeps the wine from feeling soft. Notes of sweet tobacco, clove stem, and stone dust emerge through the mid palate, settling into a

drinking the wine itself

this Barolo wraps you in a blanket of rich tannins

wild herbs

and the wine is right on par with these greats

or a holiday table where the wine needs to carry some weight

Then come classic Franc notes—pencil shavings

it's one of the best values in all of wine

concerts and anywhere else glass would be a problem

graphite-heavy Franc that lectures you about structure

On the palate

vineyard – as a Brunello producer

Domaine Dupeuble Père et Fils Beaujolais feels like a return to an older