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and dark fruit on a powerful

earlier-drinking format

enhances the wine’s natural acidity and structure

and firm but polished tannins

and quince with electric acidity that keeps it dancing

Bartolo Mascarello, Freisa, 2011 so061624 camino del albarino offer and dark fruit on aFreisa is one of Piedmont's great oddball grapesa relative of Nebbiolo that's wild, a little rustic, sometimes faintly fizzy or off dry, and adored by insiders. In Bartolo Mascarello's hands it's dry, structured, and serious, made exactly like their Barolo: organic farming, native yeasts, big old casks. The 2011 has had over a decade in bottle, which is exactly what tames Freisa's youthful edge into something more harmonious and savory. A rare, back