Winemaker Notes
Truly textbook La Morra in every way, Ellena Giuseppe Barolo del Commune di la Morra is bright garnet in color with a light orange hue. Immeasurably pleasant and aromatic, it offers scents of flowers and light, delicate spices. The bouquet is agreeably rounded, balanced between elegance and a rowdy broodiness.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Cranberry, sour red fruits, dried herbs, roasted earth and dried flowers open this very pretty wine. The palate shows more floral and earth notes at first, then moves into a deep core of fresh cherry. Fine tannins go nicely with well-balanced acidity.
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James Suckling
Ripe and fragrant nose of figs, peach pits, dried cranberries, licorice, balsamic and spice box. Full-bodied with chewy and dusty tannins, a little woody for now, but they melt nicely into the rich fruit.
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.
