2020 Ruggeri Corsini - Barolo San Pietro (750ml)

Corsini's holdings in San Pietro and Bussia are its prized parcels. They face one another in the little valley that falls steeply off the hill of Montforte and runs north-northwest. The soils are fundamentally the same, although San Pietro has a bit more sand and certainly, because of its steeper incline, less depth. The differences lie in incline--San Pietro is quite steep compared to Bussia's gentler slope--and expositions. San Pietro is mostly east-facing; Bussia looks west-southwest.

The vines in San Pietro were planted in 1997 and total just over three acres. This is the traditional Barolo, aged for 30 months in large Slavonian oak casks (the forests are in Croatia) known as botte in Italian (foudre in French). The site's thinner soils and eastern exposition make for a more elegant, transparent wine, and you often get a chalky lift from the calcareous soils. Roughly 500 cases annually.

-Importer notes (V59)