I have the opportunity to special order a parcel of Aurelio Settimo’s wonderful wines at very attractive prices.  The wine will be loaded and shipped as soon as I get the order in so we can expect them in late October or early November.  These are very good prices for some excellent wines! 

Az. Ag. Aurelio Settimo- Pre-Arrival Offer

2021 Dolcetto d’Alba $22.99, 6 bottles $126, 12 bottles $240

These vines are across the road on the north-facing slope that, on the opposite, south-facing, side of the swale, become Elio Altare’s parcel of Arborina!  This is a darker, richer, real gutsy style of Dolcetto that is extremely savory and food friendly. Don’t sleep on this. It’s really good and priced very well too.

2021 Langhe Nebbiolo $37.99, 6 bottles $210, 12 bottles $384

2021 is a fabulous vintage for this is longtime PRIMA favorite-It’s a ‘baby Barolo’ style with a lot of class and nuance. Love this wine.  Very highly recommended.

2019 Barolo DOCG $55.99, 6 bottles $324, 12 bottles $600

All Rocche, just the younger vines and exposures that don’t make it into the Rocche bottling.  This is the Settimo for those of us with less patience. Beautiful wine in 2019 and will mature sooner. If you like your Nebbiolo young, get some! 

2019 Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata $74.99, 6 bottles $432, 12 bottles $840

2019 Barolo Rocche Magnums $155 per magnum

Is Rocche the La Tache of La Morra!?  This is the flagship wine for the cantina from the oldest vines and best exposures.  This is a stunner, a wine for the ages! And it’s a relative bargain. Magnums too.

2012 Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata Riserva Magnums $255 per magnum

Fahgettaboutit!  Tiziana only makes the Riserva in truly special vintages.  Twelve-year old magnums from Rocche? Sign me up!

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It’s been way too long since we’ve been able to offer any of Tiziano Settimo’s wonderful wines but we’re very pleased to say that a new shipment will be leaving Italy shortly with a parcel of wine just for PRIMA.  And, Tiziana and her son Davide will also be on our itinerary when team-PRIMA visits the Langhe the first week of October so we’ll be able to provide a first-hand report of what’s new and exciting at this, one of our very favorite Barolo cantinas.  The problem is that by the time you read our comments, the wine will already be on the water and, mostly likely, sold out.  My advice is, if you see something that appeals to you from this offer, dive in and reserve your allocation.  My personal choices, while the Dolcetto and Barolo are also very tempting and delicious, would be the Langhe Nebbiolo, the 2019 Rocche (as much as you can!) and, because it’s so damned good, a magnum or two of the now-perfectly-drinking 2012 Rocche Riserva.  For the as-yet uninitiated, Tiziana Settimo is a longstanding OG member of Piemonte’s ever-expanding contingent of smart, talented women winemakers, but not one you’ll probably be hearing a lot about outside of La Morra.  She’s not someone you’ll meet making the rounds of trade shows in New York, Chicago, LA or San Francisco to promote her wines and she simply doesn’t have the time or inclination to submit them to critics, magazines or competitions.  She prefers, instead, to concentrate on farming her family’s large parcel of the famous Rocche dell’Annunziata cru in La Morra (Settimo has the second-largest holding in the vineyard) and fashioning her grapes into a couple of hundred cases of really tremendous Nebbiolo and Barolo.  Tiziana was raised into the business by her father Aurelio whose own father had settled in the hamlet of  Annunziata in 1943.  She took over for good when Aurelio passed away in 2007, but had been, de facto, running the family business for years. Much to Tiziana’s relief, Davide has joined now too.  The farm sits on a privileged part of Rocche, just above the hamlet and, with its immediate neighbors, Brunate and Cerrquio, forms the sweet spot of La Morra’s so-called Grandi Vigne vineyards.  Tiziana currently has fourteen acres under vine, eight of which are in the heart of Rocche and range in age from 30 to 50 years old. These vines are dedicated to her three small bottlings of Barolo and the tiny bit of Nebbiolo and Dolcetto she makes.  Tiziana learned winemaking from her father who had learned it from his, and she considers herself a staunch traditionalist. Even though the cantina has undergone a recent renovation, you still won’t find any new wood or small barrels in residence amongst the concrete fermenters and large Slovonian oak botti, this is Old School winemaking at its purest. Her Rocches are, of course, sensational.  Made only from the sweet spot of the amphitheater, Tiziana ages her Nebbiolo for 36 months, 24 of those in older French oak casks before bottling. The Barolos here- all three- are lovely Old School wines that drink well all through their lives.

Wines will arrive in late October/early November, Pre-Arrival pricing good for this offer only.