2020 Giordano - Barbaresco Asili (1.5L)

Luigi Giordano is a small, traditional family winery a stone’s throw from Barbaresco’s village center. Giovanni Giordano founded it in the 1930s, and his son Luigi made the bold move to bottle the family’s own wine in 1958, long before most Barbaresco growers did. Asili is perhaps the most celebrated cru in Barbaresco, prized for light-gray Sant’Agata marls mixed with sand that give wines of supreme finesse. Giordano farms a half-hectare in one block right in the middle of its amphitheater, alongside Gaja. Macerated for 20 to 25 days and aged about two years in large Slavonian oak casks, the 2020 is pale, perfumed and classic Asili: cinnamon, pomegranate, red currant and wild strawberry with smoky, woodsy and balsamic notes and fine, silky tannins. Now coming into its drinking window, and in magnum it will keep evolving for many years. A beautiful bottle for the holiday table with roast beef, veal or truffled risotto.