The Brezza estate, which includes part of the renowned Cannubi vineyard and other fine sites around the village of Barolo, has been bottling since 1910. Now run by Enzo Brezza and his cousin Francesco, the fourth and fifth generations of the family to make wine here, Brezza’s wines are icons of traditional winemaking: organic grape growing, long macerations, and aging in large barrels. This transparent style, applied consistently and cleanly across the different bottlings, allows the differences of the site to become clear, with no new oak aromas or rusticity getting in the way.

Brezza’s regular bottling of Barolo is made of fruit from estate vineyards in Novello, Monforte, and Barolo itself. It’s textbook Barolo; it’s relatively forward for the appellation.