Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo is the grape behind the Barolo and Barbaresco wines and is hardly ever seen outside the confines of Piedmont. It takes its name from "nebbia" which is Italian for fog, a frequent phenomenon in the region.

A notoriously pernickety grape, it requires sheltered south-facing sites and performs best on the well-drained calcareous marls to the north and south of Alba in the DOCG zones of Barbaresco and Barolo.

Langhe Nebbiolo is effectively the ‘second wine’ of Piedmont’s great Barolo & Barbarescos. This DOC is the only way Langhe producers can declassify their Barolo or Barbaresco fruit or wines to make an early-drinking style. Unlike Nebbiolo d’Alba, Langhe Nebbiolo can be cut with 15% other red indigenous varieties, such as Barbera or Dolcetto.

Nebbiolo flowers early and ripens late, so a long hang time, producing high levels of sugar, acidity and tannins; the challenge being to harvest the fruit with these three elements ripe and in balance. The best Barolos and Barbarescos are perfumed with aromas of tar, rose, mint, chocolate, liquorice and truffles. They age brilliantly and the very best need ten years to show at their best.

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2013 Spanna, Montalbano/Casa Rosa Collina Novaresi, Vallana, Piedmont

Antonio Vallana e Figlio, Ready, but will keep,

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£17.95

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£135.48

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2015 Langhe Nebbiolo, Cascina Luisin, Piedmont

Cascina Luisin, Piedmont, For laying down,

Italy > Piedmont > Langhe

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2012 Berry Bros. & Rudd Barolo by Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont

Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont, Ready, but will keep,

Made for us by Davide Rosso, this Barolo offers classic Nebbiolo character and structure. Since first bottling his family’s Serralunga d’Alba fruit in the late 1990s, Davide has rightly gained a reputation as one of the region’s finest (Nebbiolo) winemakers. He may not have the name or history of some of his famous neighbours but perhaps as a result he’s further incited to prove himself. That he is surely doing, with a range of peerless Serralunga Baroli, traditionally and expertly made.

The fine yet densely packed tannins are enveloped in scented cherry and cranberry fruit, with florals that hint at dried violets. The opulent texture is balanced by refreshing, racy acidity and a core of chalky minerals. Accessible and seductive, this is a pleasure to drink now, but the sophistication, refinement and concentration will allow it to age further in bottle. It will benefit from being decanted.

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

2 Reviews

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£28.50

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2007 Gattinara, Vallana, Piedmont

Antonio Vallana e Figlio, Ready, but will keep,

This is a unique style of wine, born in the cool air of the Alto Piemonte and made in an artisanal and unhurried fashion. Initially challenging tannin and acidity resolve with age and aeration. The wine is assertive yet simultaneously ethereal.
Complex & savoury.
100% Spanna (Nebbiolo).

Italy > Piedmont

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£28.70

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2012 Barolo, Brunate, Marcarini, Piedmont

Marcarini, Piedmont, For laying down,

From further down the La Morra escarpment, Brunate is clearly more muscular than its sister La Serra, even in 2012. This is darker, brooding garnet-red, fuller and more menthol, with loganberry, balsam oil and liquorish aromas. To taste, it’s squarer, more tannic, more demanding and complex in youth, so will need at least 10 years to come round. The Marcarini estate was established in the mid-1800s by Giuseppe Tarditi. Today, it is owned and managed by the utterly charming Manuel Marchetti, widower to Giuseppe's great, great, granddaughter, the late Luisa Bava. Their three children are slowly joining the family business, but Mexican-born Manuel is still very much in charge and running the domaine with wonderful passion and enthusiasm.

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

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£39.50

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2014 Barbaresco, Francesco Versio, Piedmont

Francesco Versio, Ready, but will improve,

Neive. Just mid ruby with orange tinges. A little backward yet full red fruit and maraschino cherry on the nose. Delicious, generous, supple red fruit with soft, bitter-sweet tannins. Gorgeously balanced and hugely enjoyable.
Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com. 3rd May 2017.

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£41.35

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£193.74

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2012 Barolo, La Serra, Marcarini, Piedmont

Marcarini, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

This remains a very traditional expression of the elevated La Serra vineyard in La Morra. Compared to the Brunate, La Serra is always more perfumed, breezy and ethereal, with incense and notes of dried grass. The 2012 vintage is especially discreet, scented with distinct notes of cassis, hay and tea-tree. This is slender on the palate, sylph-like even, with delicate notes of quinine, spices, kirsch and cassis. This will come round earlier than the Brunate.

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2011 Barbaresco Asili, Cascina Luisin, Piedmont

Cascina Luisin, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

The 2011 vintage is the first release of the Minuto family’s Barbaresco Asili, from their tiny handkerchief square of vines (0.6 hectares), comprising 55-year-old vines. There is more sand in Asili, contributing a fine texture, along with mentholated, ripe, small, strawberry fruit. It's so pretty, so suave, with impeccable lines, and quasi-perfect balance; a joy, but still in its relative youth. It should age beautifully if you can wait.

One of the oldest, and finest Barbaresco estates, Cascina Luisin is located close to the village itself, overlooking its prime vineyard of Rabajà. Son Roberto is gradually filling the shoes of his father Luigi Minuto: there has been a renovation of the large oak botti, with Austrian Stockinger oak, along with a new family reserves cellar for all those magnificent old bottles. Alongside the pretty Barbaresco Paolin and more structured Rabajà, this year we are offering the first release of their old-vine Asili.

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

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2012 Barolo, Cascina Fontana, Piedmont

Cascina Mario Fontana, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

A blend of 65 percent Nebbiolo di Castiglione Falletto and 35 percent Nebbiolo di La Morra, Mario’s classic Barolo has all the hallmarks of the territory and the vintage: open and warm-hearted, with a nose that sings of orange skin and strawberry, of dried rose and hints of candied fruit. To taste, it’s softly spoken, gentle – succulent even –intensely fruity and generous; the Castiglione component gives a steely, mineral edge. A classic.

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2012 Barolo, San Lorenzo, Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont

Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

First released as a single-vineyard wine in 1997, Verduno’s San Lorenzo vineyard is effectively an extension of the great Monvigliero vineyard, if lower down and on redder, sandy, clay soils. This aspect of terroir is clearly visible in the open, soft, red-garnet colour, and the warmth of its sandalwood and mandarin-skin aromas. It’s so gentle and charming, with sandy, suave, orange peel and spice. Only a few hundred cases were made from the small plot.

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2012 Barbaresco Rabajà, Cascina Luisin, Piedmont

Cascina Luisin, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

Roberto’s Rabajà recalls the damp and then hot vintage, while expressing its prime, “front row”, west-facing, deep, grey, marne-clay soils perfectly. A darker, almost ruby red, it’s very, cooly composed, noble even, on the nose, with dried roses, black truffle and clove notes. Broad, emphatic and square-shouldered with lots of juicy flesh on those heavy bones, ensuring Rabajà’s well covered for the years to come as it ages in bottle.

One of the oldest, and finest, Barbaresco estates, Cascina Luisin is located close to the village itself, overlooking its prime vineyard of Rabajà. Roberto is gradually filling the shoes of his father, Luigi Minuto. There has been a renovation of the large oak botti, with Austrian Stockinger oak, along with a new family reserves cellar for all those magnificent old bottles. Alongside the structured Rabajà, this year we are also offering the second release of their old-vine Asili.

Original Wooden Case

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2012 Barolo, Monvigliero, Fratelli Alessandria, Verduno, Piedmont

Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

Utterly distinct from San Lorenzo, first bottled in the great 1978 vintage, Fratelli Alessandria’s 2012 Monvigliero sings of the vineyard’s steep, white-talc slopes, with its pale, red-rose colour, and rose-petal scent, along with vintage-specific notes of violet creams. In spite of the violently hot August, Alessandria’s chalky Monvigliero kept its cool – helped no doubt by the family’s decision to de-leaf less and less in the face of a changing climate – and so giving us a haunting, ethereal, fresh, mandarin-skin and rose-petal beauty, wrapped up by the finest of (Verduno) tannins and a salty lick.

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2012 Barbaresco Asili, Cascina Luisin, Piedmont

Cascina Luisin, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

Roberto’s second vintage making Barbaresco from this celebrated cru. If sand is what characterises Paolin, and grey, marne clay Rabajà, then limestone is what surely distinguishes Asili. (Indeed, Asili could be said to possess the agility of Paolin with the complexity of Rabajà.) Whatever the similarities, it’s clearly beautifully balanced – the limestone element giving us masses of small, red fruit that have soaked up the hot August sun, rendering them tamarind like, decadent even, and complemented by new Stockinger oak botte.

Italy > Piedmont

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£270.48

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2011 Barolo, Pira, Roagna, Piedmont

Roagna, Piedmont, Ready, but will improve,

With a compact nose of gorgeous, red, strawberry fruit and Alpine herbs from Roagna’s Castiglione Falletto vineyard, this is fresher than the more decadent Vecchie Viti. Pira draws on the calcareous Castiglione soils to give not just juicy red fruit but also a sapid saltiness. Refined yet full, it brims with red-berry crunch and has a glint of cassis at its heart.

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£414.00

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£297.96

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2012 Barolo, Cerretta, Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont

Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont, For laying down,

From the blended Barolo Serralunga d’Alba we move up a gear to the single-vineyard Cerretta. Noticeably more focused and more resolved than the village Barolo, this is darker plum in colour, suave, soft and generously fruity on the nose, with neat, bright intensity. One is struck by the volume of fruit on offer; succulent kirsch, currant and dark cherry, with such clean lines.

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£70.00

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2012 Barolo, Serra, Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont

Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont, For laying down,

While the Rosso family’s Vigna Rionda vineyard may now be the most sought-after, it’s their Serra vineyard, on bright, white, talc soils just across the road that consistently catches the eye. Beautifully poised with salty, red-cherry fruit freshness and such focus. While Cerretta delves out the plummy fruit in abundance, Serra is more sinewy and highly strung, like a thoroughbred race horse. This is pure, red rose essence.

Italy > Piedmont

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2012 Barolo Falletto, Bruno Giacosa

Bruno Giacosa, For laying down,

The stony, chalky minerals of this renowned site in Serralunga d’Alba come through on the nose and palate, adding to the precision lent by defined tannins and clean acidity. Layers of crunchy red fruit, smoky spice and rich plums hint at the complexity to come with time in bottle.

“There is only one Bruno Giacosa. No one will ever make wines like these. It's as simple as that.” Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)

£660.00

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£537.00

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2004 Barolo Cru Monprivato, Castiglione Falletto, Giuseppe Mascarello

Giuseppe Mascarello e Figli, Ready, but will keep,

The Chambolle-Musigny of Barolo, the village of Castiglione Falletto, blessed with calcareous soils and a warm microclimate, consistently produces some of the most velvety Baroli. None more so than Mauro and Giuseppe Mascarello's Monprivato vineyard: a perfectly exposed limestone sunbed giving the ripest, sweetest, headiest red fruit which will emerge one day into a thing of immense beauty.
David Berry Green, Fine Wine Buyer

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)

£1,167.54

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£959.94

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2011 Barolo, Vigna Rionda, Giovanni Rosso, Serralunga d'Alba, Piedmont

Giovanni Rosso, Piedmont, For laying down,

Cited as one of Barolo’s finest vineyards, a definite Grand Cru if & when the authorities get round to classifying the zone, Vigna Rionda is to Serralunga d’Alba what La Romanee-Conti is to Vosne-Romanee. It’s a vineyard that combines perfect exposure, soil, altitude & in Davide’s case old vines planted in 1946. The Giovanni Rosso cantina’s 1 hectare was inherited in 2010 from Davide’s cousin, Tommaso Canale, who had previously made & sold off the wine to the likes of Bruno Giacosa to bottle (as ‘Collina Rionda’).

Given the state of the vineyard, planted not just with Nebbiolo but also Dolcetto & Barbera, Davide has already replanted three-quarters with Nebbiolo; the remainder being prime old Nebbiolo vines, priceless plant material but producing only circa 2000 bts per year until the new vines come of age (in 2020?). 2011 is therefore Davide’s first vintage making Vigna Rionda, vinified in static stainless-steel, cement & in single 16hl slavonian oak large botte. Full bodied yet at the same time so agile, profound, mystical even. Think about drinking from 2021 at the earliest.
David Berry Green, BBR Italian Buyer

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

2 Reviews

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£995.28

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£575.00

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2013 Sorì Tildìn, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, For laying down,

Lustrous mid ruby. Quite intense nose of red fruit and oak and perfectly integrated. Still quite closed and backward on the palate with bags of powdery tannins. Powerful structure on the finish. Very long and balanced, yet undeniably oaky for the moment.
Walter Speller - jancisrobinson.com, Oct 2016

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

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£2,049.60

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£1,695.00

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£785.20

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£650.00

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£1,690.40

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£1,400.01

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2011 Costa Russi, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, For laying down,

Round, supple and succulent, the 2011 Costa Russi is laced with dark red cherry, plum, mocha, cloves and new leather. The classic Costa Russi personality comes through in a soft, gracious wine with tons of near and medium-term appeal. The Costa Russi captures an attractive middle ground between the ripe, pliant style of the year and the medium bodied grace of Nebbiolo. I expect the 2011 will offer a long and broad drinking window of pure pleasure. Although Costa Russi is often the most precocious of Gaja's single-vineyard wines, it is the last site to be picked.
Antonio Galloni, Vinous, October 2014

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)

£503.20

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£415.00

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2013 Costa Russi, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, For laying down,

Just mid ruby with orange tinges. A little more fruit driven than the straight Barbaresco. Cherry and raspberry with a cool edge to it and the merest suggestion of oak. Beautiful, supple, mid-weight palate of red fruit, and complemented with quite demanding tannins, at least for the moment. Precise.
Walter Speller - jancisrobinson.com, Oct 2016

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)

£785.20

Magnum 1 x 150cl 2cs

£650.00

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£1,990.00

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£1,400.01

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2012 Roberto Voerzio Assortment Case 12b 2x Brunate,5x Cerequio,5xAnnunziata

Roberto Voerzio, For laying down,

We are once again fortunate to be able to offer the opportunity to buy three of Roberto's top Baroli. This year we are featuring the 2012 vintage and we are offering the wines in a mixed 12 bottle case.

This case contains:

5 x 75cl 2012 Barolo Rocche dell’ Annunziata
5 x 75cl 2012 Barolo Cerequio
2 x 75cl 2012 Barolo Brunate

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

Case price (Asx12 btl 1 x 900cl)

£1,705.17

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£1,395.00

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2004 Barolo, Vigna Rionda, Luigi Oddero, Serralunga d'Alba, Piedmont

Vigneti Luigi Oddero, Piedmont, Ready, but will keep,

Compared to the satiny texture of Castiglione Falletto’s Rocche dei Rivera vineyard, Serralunga’s Vigna Rionda is all about crunchy fruit intensity, poise and presence!

There’s the hallmark red hue associated with Serralunga’s lofty vineyards; the tighter, sinewy grip that points to nutrient-poor, minerally-rich soils that are seemingly bleached white in the summer sun; the crunchy, tiny red berry energy, pace and persistence from perfect aspect, echoing Burgundy’s finest sites. If it seems aloof then that’s because it is: the village’s top vineyard. Give it time and space in a large decanter and who knows, it might even join the party! Drinking now but will improve/mellow further in bottle.
David Berry Green

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs

£580.00

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2010 Barbaresco, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, Ready, but will keep,

The grapes for Gaja's flagship Barbaresco are sourced from 14 unique vineyard sites across Barbaresco. The wine spends an average of 12 months in barriques followed by 12 months in large wooden casks. A very elegant wine which ages well, it can be appreciated within a few years of bottling.
David Berry Green

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

New To BBX

Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs

£860.00

Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs

£874.00

Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs

£875.00

Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs

£790.00

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2010 Sorì Tildìn, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, Ready, but will improve,

An 8 acre vineyard was bought by the Gaja family in 1934 and sits on a hilltop with southern exposure. Named after Angelo’s grandmother it produces a wine of matchless elegance and power; full, rich, structured and with an enormous weight of ripe fine fruits.

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

New To BBX

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£1,800.00

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2008 Conteisa, Angelo Gaja

Gaja, Ready, but will keep,

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

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£750.00

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2009 Barolo, Brunate, Marcarini, Piedmont

Marcarini, Piedmont, Ready, but will keep,

Marcarini’s Barolo Brunate remains rock year in, year out, classic credentials for Vigna Grande (‘Grand Cru’) status sometime in the future. A wine born of a traditional approach, both in the vineyard (normal yields, no bunch decapitation or concentration) and followed by a long 50 day skin maceration in cement prior to bottle grand affinamento (‘elevage’). Harvested after La Serra on 15 – 17 October, this Brunate – planted in 1985 and 1986 - oozes terroir, reflecting back the hot days, cold nights microclimate that transforms into a darker, fuller, more compact wine (vs. La Serra) with broad balsamic, tamarind, quinine, strawberry notes, plenty of tea ‘sfumatura’ (nuance), a generous lush, almost syrupy texture and emphatic mouthfeel. Needs time.
David Berry Green

Italy > Piedmont > Barolo

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£200.00

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2009 Barbaresco, Pajé, Roagna, Piedmont

Roagna, Piedmont, Ready, but will keep,

From the family’s amphitheatre-like vineyard that sits mid slope overlooking the river Tanaro below, macerated for 80 days before being aged for five years in different sized barrels, it’s neat, with gleaming red cassis fruit and notes of wild herbs at its core. There’s great clarity and composure of strawberry fruit and forest floor, underpinned by salty minerality.
David Berry Green

Italy > Piedmont > Barbaresco

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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs

£300.00