Domenico Clerico, Barolo Pajana, 2006 Wholesale10 and offers real grower character

and offers real grower character at a very approachable price

so there's no blending to sand down the edges

Brewed in Brooklyn using California-grown Calrose rice milled to 50%

this Grenache comes from the newly minted SLO Coast AVA

The 2023 is intense and concentrated

Domenico Clerico, Barolo Pajana, 2006 Wholesale10 and offers real grower characterDomenico Clerico was one of the original Barolo Boys, the 1990s modernist crew who put French barrique and shorter macerations into the Langhe playbook. Pajana is one of his flagships, a single vineyard Barolo from inside the Ginestra MGA in Monforte d'Alba, planted in 1971 on Lequio Serravallian marl, debut vintage 1990. The 2006 sits squarely in the modernist Clerico mold, vinified by Domenico himself nearly two decades ago: French barrique,