Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 2006 Freisa and Friends SO1024 Rio Sordo is often the

Rio Sordo is often the most immediately seductive

too—lifted acidity that gives the wine energy and drinkability even in its youth

A decade-plus on

the wine is aged for over two years in large oak casks

Drink now through 2028 for its lively freshness

Giacomo Conterno, Barolo Cascina Francia, 2006 Freisa and Friends SO1024 Rio Sordo is often theA powerhouse vintage from one of Barolo's most revered traditional estates. Giacomo Conterno's Cascina Francia is a single Serralunga vineyard of clay limestone, fermented on native yeasts with long maceration and aged for years in large Slavonian casks. The 2006 is a structured, powerful, deeply tannic vintage, and Cascina Francia is the most intensely tannic of Conterno's sites, so this remains a serious, slow resolving wine. After nearly two