Nebbiolo
2017 Roagna - Barbaresco Paje
The 2017 Barbaresco Pajè offers up a compelling mélange of sweet redtoned fruit, cinnamon, blood orange, leather, cedar and tobacco. Deceptive in its mid-weight structure, the 2017 fleshes out nicely with a bit of time in the glass, showing its natural ...
2017 Roagna - Barbaresco Gallina
The 2017 Barbaresco Gallina is bright, translucent and bristling with energy. Crushed red berry fruit, blood orange, spice, anise, mint and chalk all run through this nervy, mid-weight Barbaresco. In 2017, the Gallina leans towards the more taut end of...
2017 Rocca, Albino - Barbaresco Montersino
The 2017 Barbaresco Montersino offers a striking mix of energy, power and depth. Crushed red berry fruit, mint, white flowers, chalk and pine are all laced together in a lithe Barbaresco that pulses with vibrancy. The Montersino impresses with its persist...
2015 Rocca, Albino - Barbaresco Cotta
Here in its first release, 2015 Barbaresco Cottà, shows the natural breadth of this vineyard in Neive. There has a real sense of weight and gravitas that distinguishes the Cottà in this range. I would give the 2015 at least a few years in bottle to fu...
2019 Rocca, Bruno - Barbaresco Maria Adelaide
The 2019 Barbaresco Maria Adelaide is dense and quite powerful, but with all the drive that characterizes the Bruno Rocca Barbarescos today. Red cherry fruit, plum, blood orange, mint and spice are all woven together in this super-classy Barbaresco. Ov...
2019 Rocca, Giovanni - Barolo Bricco Ravera di Monforte (750ml)
Showing expressive cherry and strawberry flavors, this red features a lacy texture, firm tannins and licorice and spice notes. Reveals density and tension on the lingering, mineral-tinged finish. Best from 2026 through 2045. 600 cases made, 200 cases impo...
2022 Ruggeri Corsini - Langhe DOC Rosso Matot (750ml)
The one blended Corsini wine. This, effectively, is the farm’s second
label, created to enable it to keep a high standard with its other wines (everything is estate
bottled at Ruggeri Corsini; nothing is sold in bulk to traders, a fact that makes quality control
for a wine like Matot particularly important). Matot is, as Nicola says, a glass of Piedmontese
red. Based on Dolcetto, with varying percentages of Nebbiolo, Barbera, Albarossa and Pinot
Nero.
-Importer notes (V59)
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)
2019 Sandrone, L. - Nebbiolo d'Alba DOC Valmaggiore
The 2019 Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore is a bright, sculpted wine that is going to need a few years to come into its own. Bright acids and firm tannins are a bit present today, so a few years of cellaring are a must. The Sandrone Valmaggiore has a track rec...
2018 Sandrone, L. - Barolo Aleste
Made with fruit from Cannubi Boschis, the Luciano Sandrone 2018 Barolo Aleste is plump and ripe, but this wine also shows a more delicate character that is its ace card. The aromas are filigreed and fine with dark fruit, spice and licorice. The effect is ...
2018 Sandrone, L. - Barolo Le Vigne
One of my personal favorites, the 2018 Barolo Le Vigne is savory in character and packed with dark fruit. Ripe cherry and redcurrant cedes to spice, licorice and fragrant rose. The oak is integrated, but there are added accents of spice and dark tar. Le V...
