Alex Calabro explores this 2017 Gattinara made by Roberto Conterno, probably the biggest Barolo guy around. With the same perfectionism he manically expresses in his more famous Barolos.
White truffles are in the air…I’m going to give you some background about truffles first…the boring stuff:A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean fungus, predominantly one of the many species of thegenus Tuber. Truffles are fungi usually found in close association with tree roots. Spore dispersal isaccomplished through animals that eat fungi. That’s