In my view, there is no greater Italian wine than Barolo from a good vintage. There may be instances of “first among equals”, when a great Barbaresco, Aglianico or Brunello vintage comes along, but I don’t really believe that the best of Barolo can be surpassed by any other wine from Italy. In fact, there aren’t too many other wines made anywhere else that can compete with it.
That said, wine lovers everywhere ought to be happy to know that following on the heels of a very great 2005 vintage, we now have the great wines of 2006, absurdly underrated by many wine “experts”.

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