2004 Barbaresco, Rabajà, Riserva, Giuseppe Cortese, Piedmont, Italy

2004 Barbaresco, Rabajà, Riserva, Giuseppe Cortese, Piedmont, Italy

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The 2004 Barbaresco Riserva Rabaja bursts from the glass with layers of highly expressive fruit. It is a huge, explosive Barbaresco endowed with a sensual, mysterious personality that isnt ready to show all of its cards just yet. Still the silkiness, richness and sheer intensity of the wine suggest it will drink beautifully for a number of years. It is a compelling, utterly harmonious wine of the highest level. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2024.
Antonio Galloni - 31/10/2011

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The 2004 Barbaresco Riserva Rabaja bursts from the glass with layers of highly expressive fruit. It is a huge, explosive Barbaresco endowed with a sensual, mysterious personality that isnt ready to show all of its cards just yet. Still the silkiness, richness and sheer intensity of the wine suggest it will drink beautifully for a number of years. It is a compelling, utterly harmonious wine of the highest level. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2024.
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Azienda Agricole Giuseppe Cortese

Azienda Agricole Giuseppe Cortese

Azienda Agricola Cortese produces wines exclusively from its own grapes grown on 6 hectares of vineyards situated in the small hamlet of Rabajà in Barbaresco. Pier Carlo and sister Tiziana Cortese's wines are a blend of modern vinification and traditional philosophy achieving brilliant varietal purity whilst expressing the terroir/typicità/sense of place.

His Dolcetto comes from his 2.5 hectares Trifolera vineyard, whilst the 4ha Rabajà vineyard yields beautiful Nebbiolo for his Barbaresco; a wine that spends 30 months in large old Slavonian & French barrels/'botte'. The latter is fast becoming one of the most sought after wine in the region.

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Barbaresco

Barbaresco

The Piedmontese DOCG zone of Barbaresco is responsible for producing some of Italy’s finest wines. It occupies the same region and uses the same grape (Nebbiolo) as its bigger brother Barolo, but is a third of the size (only 640 hectares versus Barolo’s 1,700 hectares). It is also 50 years younger than Barolo, having produced wine labelled Barbaresco since 1890.

Barbaresco earned its DOCG after Barolo in 1980, largely thanks to the efforts of Angelo Gaja. The soils are lighter here than in Barolo – both in colour and weight – and more calcareous. The slopes are also less favourably situated and (relatively speaking) yield earlier-maturing yet extremely elegant wines that require less oak ageing (normally one year in oak plus six months in bottle). The appellation’s key districts are Barbaresco, Treiso, Neive and Alba.

Recommended producers: Cigliuti, Gaja, Marchesi di Gresy

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Nebbiolo

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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