Travaglini Gattinara 2006

Travaglini Gattinara 2006
19,88€; 13,5% abv. I haven't always enjoyed Travaglini, often finding a touch of Barrique aromas although only a small portion (in this wine 10%) is aged in small, French barrels. But in this wine everything comes together nicely. An aroma true to the grape but rather dark toned and woodsy (not woody) and with a tomato/rust -like savoury fruitiness - this is all tar and no roses. Rugged, rustic, nicely tannic, quite sweet fruit for the grape. But instead of the ethereal purity of the best Nebbiolos, this has a slight furriness to the palate; it is a muscular wine rather than an ethereally graceful one, but I like it anyways.