Burzi, Barolo Capalot' Vecchie Viti, 2017
Cult Barolo in the making. Alberto Burzi took over his family's small La Morra estate in 2012, after completing oenology studies in 2010, and has quietly built one of the most exciting young-traditionalist projects in the Langhe — about seven hectares total, with the Capalot MGA at the center. Vecchie Viti comes off roughly 80-year-old vines and sees 24 months in large Austrian oak botte, true to form. 2017, a warm, drought-pressured Piedmont vintage, gave a Barolo of riper red fruit and rounder shoulders than the classical 2016 — but Burzi's long submerged-cap fermentations and patient elevage keep it firmly inside La Morra's perfumed, gracious style. Drinking beautifully now with a window of fifteen-plus years ahead. The kind of producer you mention to friends quietly, hoping the allocations hold.
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Cult Barolo in the making. Alberto Burzi took over his family's small La Morra estate in 2012, after completing oenology studies in 2010, and has quietly built one of the most exciting young-traditionalist projects in the Langhe — about seven hectares total, with the Capalot MGA at the center. Vecchie Viti comes off roughly 80-year-old vines and sees 24 months in large Austrian oak botte, true to form. 2017, a warm, drought-pressured Piedmont vintage, gave a Barolo of riper red fruit and rounder shoulders than the classical 2016 — but Burzi's long submerged-cap fermentations and patient elevage keep it firmly inside La Morra's perfumed, gracious style. Drinking beautifully now with a window of fifteen-plus years ahead. The kind of producer you mention to friends quietly, hoping the allocations hold.
