Combine Piedmont's top red grape variety with one of the region's top producers and the result is this super red wine. It may not say Barolo on the label, but it puts many to shame, such is the depth of flavour and intensity to this wine. It's not heavy, in fact it has quite a freshness to it, but it's laden with dried fruit and damson flavour, with a hint of chocolate and spice. This exceptional wine is delicious with Italian meats, and grilled flavours in general.

Renato Ratti is one of Piedmont's pioneering winemakers, having championed the idea of individual vineyard bottling to highlight the characteristics of different 'Terroir'. This wine is produced from Renato's grapes in the excellent Marcenasco vineyard in the heart of the Barolo DOC. The intense wine is matured for two years in barrel before it is bottled and released and the resulting wine is full bodied and elegant. Dark cherry combine with hints of liquorice, cocoa and tobacco, to give a complex, hugely impressive wine.

This 100% Nebbiolo highlights that wonderful wines of this style are still being produced by some of the region's top small producers and that it's noble production methods of long maceration, indigenous yeast, and old oak 'Botti' are still being used with great vigour. Ca Nova' Barbaresco's maintain that earthy undertone which gives them superb character and a fantastic display of their origins and terroir. A beautiful and delicious wine all round.