Elio Grasso, Barolo Gavarini Chiniera, 2019 bis-hidden Michael Cruse has built a

Michael Cruse has built a reputation for crafting some of California’s most exciting and unconventional wines

overlooked region into a hotbed of terroir-focused natural wine

intense herbal liqueur

making it just as drinkable young as it is cellar-worthy

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Elio Grasso, Barolo Gavarini Chiniera, 2019 bis-hidden Michael Cruse has built aElio Grasso's house sits on a ridge in Monforte d'Alba with the vineyards falling away on either side, and Gavarini Chiniera is the parcel just below the door. It's the cooler, more perfumed of the estate's two great crus where Ginestra brings power, Chiniera brings fragrance and finesse, though nobody would mistake it for shy. Gianluca Grasso ferments simply and ages the wine in large Slavonian casks, the traditional route, which lets Nebbiolo's tar