2015 Giordano - Barbaresco Montestefano (750ml)

Luigi Giordano is a small, traditional family winery a stone’s throw from the village center of Barbaresco. Giovanni Giordano founded it in the 1930s, and his son Luigi took the bold step of bottling the family’s own wine. Today Luigi’s daughter Laura and grandson Matteo carry on the classic style, with long macerations and aging in large oak botti. Montestefano is one of Barbaresco’s grandest crus and the first vineyard there ever bottled as a single site. Giordano’s one-hectare parcel, planted in the 1960s on blue marl, is their proudest holding, and it gets extra time on the skins and in barrel. The 2015 is rich, enveloping and generous for this powerful site: sweet red cherry, raspberry and blood orange with mint, rose and spice, now gaining savory notes of earth and dried fruit with bottle age. Drinking beautifully at 11 years, with more to come. Perfect with braised beef, tajarin with truffle or agnolotti del plin.