Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2008
Seventeen years of cellar time and the wine is just hitting its stride. Giuseppe Cortese has farmed in Rabajà — Barbaresco's most aristocratic cru, alongside Asili and Martinenga — for generations, and the family approach is unwaveringly traditional: south-facing calcareous-marl, vines pushing seventy years old, extended élevage in large neutral Slavonian casks. The 2008 vintage was a classical, structured Piedmont year, and time has done what time does to honest Nebbiolo. The fruit has settled into tertiary territory — dried roses, leather, tobacco leaf, tar — while the texture remains supple and the finish carries that menthol-licorice signature Rabajà is famous for. A mature traditional Barbaresco drinking at peak, with another decade of life if you have the patience.
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Seventeen years of cellar time and the wine is just hitting its stride. Giuseppe Cortese has farmed in Rabajà — Barbaresco's most aristocratic cru, alongside Asili and Martinenga — for generations, and the family approach is unwaveringly traditional: south-facing calcareous-marl, vines pushing seventy years old, extended élevage in large neutral Slavonian casks. The 2008 vintage was a classical, structured Piedmont year, and time has done what time does to honest Nebbiolo. The fruit has settled into tertiary territory — dried roses, leather, tobacco leaf, tar — while the texture remains supple and the finish carries that menthol-licorice signature Rabajà is famous for. A mature traditional Barbaresco drinking at peak, with another decade of life if you have the patience.
