When you speak about italian wine in France everybody laugh at you. For them Italian wine means the very bad bardolino you found in the pizza restaurant. And it's sad, you found so many diversity in italy, in the terroir, in the grape diversity and so many talent in some of the winemaker.
My favourite wine are Barolo and Barbaresco, those wine made hundred percent from Nebiolo are amazing. They are the kind of wine you can keep for decade, the grape variety make usually full bodied wine with great and silky tannins and high acidity that balance everything.
New Barolo tend to be drinkable younger but still this long ageing of four years in big oak barrel, this make a round wine sometime over extracted but allways a pleasure to drink.
The best producer for me (and the one i like the must) is G.D Vadjra who make the best Barolos i ever tried allways very well made not to much extraction with a great balance silky tannins and long in mouth. I recomand the "Bricco del Viole" it's heavy and sharp like a Medoc and sweet and silky like a Burgundy.
The other you should try Sandrone (Barolo), Giacosa (a great Barbaresco and you should try is white from Arneis amazing of freshness) and if your luky the wine from Gaja are an experience to live.
Hopes you will drink more italian wine, i talk today about this region but they're is so many other that are valuable.
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