Vite Colte Essenze Barolo del Comune di Barolo 2011

  • 93 James
    Suckling
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Region

Producer

Vintage
2011

Size
750ML

ABV
14%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Red tending towards garnet. Bouquet is intense and complex, with notes of violet, vanilla, tobacco and goudron. Dry and warm, with great body and structure. The lingering persistent finish reveals ripe black and red fruit and an evident balsamic note.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    Really aromatic and fresh with blueberry, blackberry and floral character. Full body, chewy and muscular. Needs at least three years to soften but already so pretty to taste.

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  • 93 James
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Vite Colte, Italy
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Vite Colte is the winegrower’s skill.

180 winegrowers with 300 hectares of vineyard in Piedmont, part of which undergoing conversion to organic farming procedures.

Every winegrower devotes a part of his estate to the Vite Colte project, ensuring that it receives the most meticulous attention, with constant dialogues with the technical agronomist. Real winegrowers, who contribute all their skills, passion and his presence. Behind each Vite Colte’s wine there is a face, a story and a family.

We have everything we need: a vast heritage of vineyards, which means we can choose the best, the best motivated winegrowers of the group, with their families; modern enological systems, the technology which is needed to preserve and enhance the quality of the grapes; a first-class technical group coordinated by Daniele Eberle in the vineyards together with Bruno Cordero in our winery.

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Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area, as well as in the neighboring Valle d’Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piedmontese villages of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Somm Secret—If you’re new to Nebbiolo, start with a charming, wallet-friendly, early-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba.

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The center of the production of the world’s most exclusive and age-worthy red wines made from Nebbiolo, the Barolo wine region includes five core townships: La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Serralunga d’Alba, Castiglione Falletto and the Barolo village itself, as well as a few outlying villages. The landscape of Barolo, characterized by prominent and castle-topped hills, is full of history and romance centered on the Nebbiolo grape. Its wines, with the signature “tar and roses” aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.

There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.

On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.

The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.

HIHVCESEN_2011 Item# 594067

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