Fratelli Alessandria, Barolo Monvigliero, 2013
Verduno's most legendary cru, in a classical vintage, just entering its window. Monvigliero sits on a south-facing amphitheater above the village of Verduno — the cru that defines the appellation's perfumed, elegant style — and Fratelli Alessandria, Verduno's first family of Barolo, owns 1.4 hectares here. Vittore Alessandria vinifies with 20% whole-berry fermentation and ages three years in Slavonian botti, the old-school recipe. The 2013 is a textbook structured Barolo vintage, and twelve years on this wine is opening up beautifully: wild cherry, rose petal, dried herbs, tobacco and white pepper on the nose; layered red fruit, licorice and fine, silky tannins on the palate. The kind of Barolo you can drink now with a long carafe — or rest another decade plus.
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Verduno's most legendary cru, in a classical vintage, just entering its window. Monvigliero sits on a south-facing amphitheater above the village of Verduno — the cru that defines the appellation's perfumed, elegant style — and Fratelli Alessandria, Verduno's first family of Barolo, owns 1.4 hectares here. Vittore Alessandria vinifies with 20% whole-berry fermentation and ages three years in Slavonian botti, the old-school recipe. The 2013 is a textbook structured Barolo vintage, and twelve years on this wine is opening up beautifully: wild cherry, rose petal, dried herbs, tobacco and white pepper on the nose; layered red fruit, licorice and fine, silky tannins on the palate. The kind of Barolo you can drink now with a long carafe — or rest another decade plus.
