Frasqueiras Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Medium Sweet (bottled 2013, 26yo) 1987 Size::1 Bottle From just outside the Barolo

From just outside the Barolo DOC

the tannins are refined and effortlessly coalesce with the wine’s juicy acidity and fruit weight

Significantly

The fruit for this bottling comes from several parcels

The vines grow on rocky terraces planted on hillsides west of the Moselle River

Frasqueiras Pereira D’Oliveiras Boal Medium Sweet (bottled 2013, 26yo) 1987 Size::1 Bottle From just outside the BaroloRich, raisined fruits are figgy with touches of maraschino and fat walnuts in a jam packed, luscious nose with toast and carob. It's grapey and succulent, but there's lift and freshness, too the smell of first rain after a long dry spell over fine old balsamic timber complexity. The twin tracked sweetness is beautifully rounded through two thirds of the palate, then planes out and becomes lighter, drier and more lingering. Nuts and dates slide along a