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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...
2021 Sottimano - Barbera d'Alba Pairolero
- 100% Barbera from two different vineyards in Neive: Basarin and San Cristoforo
- Fermentation and maceration lasts 25 days
- No selected yeasts are used
- Malolactic fermentation in 15% new French oak barrels coopered expressly for Sottimano by Francois Frères in Burgundy
- Ages 15-16 months
- No filtering and no fining prior to bottling
- 1,000 cases produced annually
2022 Sottimano - Dolcetto d'Alba DOC Bric del Salto
- 100% Dolcetto sourced from 3 different vineyards (totaling 3.5 ha) in Neive: Cottá, Basarin, and San Cristoforo
- Fermentation and maceration on the skins for 20 days with indigenous yeasts
- Aged in stainless steel for six months
- No fining or filtration
- 1833 cases produced
2022 Sottimano - Vino Rosso Brachetto Mate
- 100% Brachetto
- The Mate’ vineyard is a little (1.1 hectare) plot of 40+ year old Brachetto vines planted to limestone and clay in the zone of Treiso
- Fermentation and maceration on the skins for 20 days with indigenous yeasts
- Malolactic fermentation in stainless steel for 8 months
- Never fined or filtered
- 416 cases produced annually
2020 Sottimano - Barbaresco Cotta Briche
The 2020 Barbaresco Cottá is dense, powerful and closed in on itself. Black cherry, plum, spice, menthol, mocha and earthiness add to an impression of gravitas. Huge tannins give this potent, brooding wine a great deal of structure. This impressive, yo...
2020 Sottimano - Barbaresco Pajore
The 2020 Barbaresco Pajorè is a textbook wine from this site. A wine of depth and stature, the Pajorè is so impressive, even just bottled. Dark cherry, plum, lavender, spice and menthol race across the palate as the 2020 shows off its obvious pedigree....
2020 Sottimano - Barbaresco Fausoni
The 2020 Barbaresco Fausoni takes all the elegance of the 2019 and turns up the dial one more notch. Deep and explosive, the 2020 captures all the best this vintage had to offer. A rush of dark red fruit, blood orange, spice, menthol, salt, lavender an...
2019 Sottimano - Barbaresco Basarin
The Sottimano 2019 Barbaresco Basarin opens to a beautifully luminous ruby appearance with soft Nebbiolo aromas of wild cherry, grilled rosemary, cola and pressed wildflower. The wine is tapered and extremely elegant with firm tannins over a long mouthfee...
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...
2016 Sottimano - Barbaresco Curra
Showing darker and slightly more saturated fruit, the Sottimano 2016 Barbaresco Currá is a more robust and amply endowed wine compared to the other single-vineyard expressions in this portfolio. Drawing its fruit from the village of Neive, the Currá offer...
2019 Sottimano - Barbaresco Cotta Briche
The 2019 Barbaresco Cottá shows all the richness and weight this site is capable of. Dark red fruit, rose petal, lavender, blood orange and cedar open nicely in the glass, but ultimately it is the wine's huge mid-palate and fine balance that impress mo...
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 ...