Unfortunately for us, Ca’ del Baio is no longer the best-kept secret in Barbaresco it once was. The news, thanks to their reviews, the annual visits of the PRIMA gang and the profiling of the Grasso sisters in Suzanne Hoffman’s...
Wine Country: Italy
Wine Subregion: Piemonte
Wine Sub-subregion: Barbaresco
Wine Varietal: Nebbiolo
Another stupendous effort from the Rocca sisters! Totally surprised we even had this….
Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Piemonte Wine Sub-subregion: Barbaresco Bin Location: C4 Only the second time a Don Fiorino was ever made! Extraordinary
1974 Scarpa Barbaresco Podere Barberis offers a thick, luscious mouthfeel of Nebbiolo fruit, with highly complex flavors of red cherry, tar, licorice and herbs that seem to last forever. SCARPA offers a combination of current and...
2015 Rio Sordo Rio Sordo is one of the best Cru sites in Barbaresco. The vineyard faces southwest, allowing the Nebbiolo vines to soak in the sun and reach optimal ripeness. The soils are primarily a mix of calcareous marl...
Ripe red and black cherry fruit flavors mingle with secondary notes of balsamic, dark chocolate, and spaded earth. The medium body and robustness is supported by a quite lithe texture Founded in 1958, when local economic conditions had reached a nadir,...
This small estate with cellars near the town of Neive is about as Old School as it gets. Although there is a computer, a fax and a telephone in the office these days, there is virtually no other technology in sight. The old stainless steel...