Savory on the nose with notes of medicinal herbs, licorice, clove, dried flowers and mixed dried fruits. The elegant palate shows dried blood oranges, cranberry and baking spice. Superfine tannins with oak spice define the finish.

Sweet red cherries, tobacco, flowers and spices meld together in the 2009 Roero Riserva Trinità. An attractive, medium-bodied wine, the 2009 has good balance, but doesn't quite show the pedigree of the very best years.