Winemaker Notes
Deep ruby red color. Fresh fragrance with hints of red fruits, hibiscus and rose supported by intense balsamic and spicy sensations.
The taste is warm, persistent and elegant with a pleasant ending of licorice and almond.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A well-knit and balanced red, though a bit high-toned on the nose, with taut tannins creating a fine frame for lively flavors of macerated strawberry and raspberry fruit, red licorice, bay leaf and mocha. Minerally, spiced finish. Drink now through 2029. 1,200 cases made, 50 cases imported.
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.
Containing an exciting mix of wine producing subregions, Lombardy is Italy’s largest in size and population. Good quality Pinot noir, Bonarda and Barbera have elevated the reputation of the plains of Oltrepò Pavese. To its northeast in the Alps, Valtellina is the source of Italy’s best Nebbiolo wines outside of Piedmont. Often missed in the shadow of Prosecco, Franciacorta produces collectively Italy’s best Champagne style wines, and for the fun and less serious bubbly, find Lambrusco Mantovano around the city of Mantua. Lugana, a dry white with a devoted following, is produced to the southwest of Lake Garda.