Barbaresco Montestefano La Ca`Nova

The Rocca family, whose fruit once went to Gaja, began bottling its own wine in the 1970s; Marco makes the wine and Ivan manages 14 organic hectares, all in Barbaresco. Montestefano is a steep, south-facing slope of sandy-veined blue limestone marl, called the most Baroloesque of the Barbarescos." Patient, traditional winemaking. Vinous called the 2021 "a towering beauty.