Piemonte
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)
2023 Ruggeri Corsini - Barbera d'Alba (750ml)
A Piedmontese classic, Barbera is the mainstay of the farm, representing 40- 45% of production. Made and aged in steel tanks. Quite dark, full, earthy and meaty, and carried by delicious acidity, the grape’s signature. 1,200-1,600 cases annually.
2020 Sandrone, L. - Barbera d'Alba
The 2020 Barbera d'Alba is another wine that shows the greater refinement at Sandrone these days. Even so, there's plenty of richness in the ripe red cherry, plum, mocha and spice flavors. Soft, silky contours wrap it all together, with a gentle kiss o...
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...
2015 Sottimano - Barbaresco Curra Masue
Here's a little hop, skip and a jump back in time to a vintage with great personality and character. The Sottimano 2015 Barbaresco Currá is a majestic expression that unfolds to reveal dark fruit, spice and carefully evolved aromas of tar, licorice and sp...
2015 Sottimano - Barbaresco Fausoni
The 2015 Barbaresco Fausoni offers terrific freshness and lift, especially within the context of the year. Bright red berry fruit and floral notes give this mid-weight, nervy Barbaresco much of its vibrancy. The tannins could use a bit more bottle age ...
2020 Sottimano - Barbaresco Basarin
The 2020 Barbaresco Basarin is a wine of pure and total sensuality. For a just bottled, young Barbaresco, the Basarin possesses magnificent balance. A burst of dark red fruit, spice, rose petal, mint and blood orange hits the palate, followed by a good...
