Pio Boffa of Pio Cesare sat on the panel along with world class producers Billecart-Salmon, FX Pichler, Chateau Mouton, Cullen, and Dirk Niepoort. Pio Boffa and the other five top winery representatives gave their opinion on what makes a great wine at the ‘Great Wines of the World’ seminar in Hong Kong recently.
Pio Cesare’s top Barolo ‘Ornato’ from 2010 demonstrated the power of innate complexity and the captivating quality of tension and contrast in a wine, its alluring and orchestral fragrance cast against profound tannin structure and powerful acidity to mesmerizing effect.
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