2013 Barolo Pajana Clerico Merlot and Petit Verdot)

Merlot and Petit Verdot)

The 2019 vintage delivers it in spades with lovely concentrated fruit

Inky in hue

The palate has ripe peach fruits

Soil: pebble-rich alluvium

2013 Barolo Pajana Clerico Merlot and Petit Verdot)Parker Larner 95 points: Pajana represents the lower end of the same site that produces fruit for the Barolo Ciabot Mentin. The soils are a bit looser here and the temperatures are just a few fractions higher at this site. Winemaking for the 2013 Barolo Pajana sees 20 days of skin maceration, and malolactic fermentation in this vintage was done in oak (otherwise that second fermentation occurs in stainless steel). The idea, of course, is to work