Winemaker Notes
Intense ruby red with garnet hues. Penetrating, captivating, and highly aromatic with classic notes of red fruit and hints of freshly cut flowers, hay, and sweet spices. Austere and noble, with great vigor, fullness, savoriness, and minerality. The excellent terroir and particular microclimate create a unique complexity.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
This has an earthy character with ripe red berries, citrus peel, ground spices and mushrooms. Full and viscous on the palate with chalky tannins and a velvety finish. Try now, but better after 2025.
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James Suckling
This has an earthy character with ripe red berries, citrus peel, ground spices and mushrooms. Full and viscous on the palate with chalky tannins and a velvety finish. Try now, but better after 2025.
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.
