This vintage is more delicate and classic than the ’09.  Its fragrance is supple peaches and roses, very ethereal.  It is soft and friendly in the mouth, like a dreamcycle melting in your mouth.  The finish is enlivening, a good deal of shimmery flavor, lots of pink grapefruit sorbet.   13 Alcohol. Read more or buy this wine online >>> 

An attractive nose of cherry pits with a patina of leather, dust and cobwebs; kind of old tack room like.  Really a big, slap you around experience; not ‘cause it’s mean but ‘cause that’s good Nebbiolo at this age.  Especially when you learn that the Nebbiolo Perbacco is wine culled out during the selection process for the Castiglione Barolo.  Most other properties would label this wine Barolo but not the rigorous Luca Currado, owner of Vietti.  Rich but lively flavours build all the way through the spicy finish.  14 Alcohol. Read more or buy this wine online >>> 

Nice nose, nuanced decidedly toward pitted and cane fruits on a warm summer afternoon.  This is really surprising, pleasantly so, as the Merlot from this region typically smell of herbs and olives.   More depth of flavour, too.  A patina of leatheriness adds complexity to the fruit.  Excellent structure with tannin and acid emerging to assure you of the wine’s youth and potential.  Red fruit in a really engaging, fresh, energizing way.   13.5 Alcohol. Read more or buy this wine online >>> 

Serious white wine from the Piedmonte.  I imagine that if you used a stone pestle and mortar to crush a lovely yellow peach, pit and all, along with the zest of a lemon this is the fragrance you’d get.  The impression in the mouth is quite textural, silky almost.  That feel is supported by the finish as are the flavours; quite unusual but very appealing.  I’d like to run across this more often.  Obviously there is a richness to this wine but no fat, none.  12.5 Alcohol. Read more or buy this wine online >>> 

Very purple.  The nose is very primary yet but has a certain deep blueberry warm pie smell.  Gorgeous and velvety, entirely mouth-filling.  The texture is so superb the flavours actually take a back seat in the initial and substantial pleasure of this wine.  There are rich, meaty tannins but it is the abundance of fruit acid that dominates the really seductive finish. The flavours are totally lingonberry.   I really like this, can you tell?  14.5 Alcohol
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