Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011
There is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old botti. The 2011, from a warm and forward vintage, is approachable earlier than most while keeping the wine's signature intensity.
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There is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old botti. The 2011, from a warm and forward vintage, is approachable earlier than most while keeping the wine's signature intensity.
