97 points - Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, November 2021I tasted the Giacomo Conterno 2017 Barolo Francia shortly before bottling. Like Roberto Conternos other wines from this controversial vintage, this wine shines with brilliant and unexpected purity and intensity that is harder to find in its peers. It shows a deep understanding of the potential of a warm growing season, and the Nebbiolo is supple, velvety and uncharacteristically exuberant (for a grape whose elegance starts famously with understatement). Francia in Serralunga dAlba evokes