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2009 Barolo, Gramolere, Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful
Product: 20091314351
2009 Barolo, Gramolere, Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Description

Jumping from the village of Verduno to Monforte d’Alba is akin to comparing Santenay with Gevrey! The impression made starker by the warmth of the vintage and the age of the 53 year old vines, giving a bold, mentholated wine. Gramolere sits high above Bussia, steep west facing on sandy, potassium rich soils, giving a hedonistic, balsamic, black fig, almost Brunate-esque presence intensified by the afternoon sun, complete with molten tannins. Emphatic. 
David Berry Green
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2009
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Producer Fratelli Alessandria

About this wine

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.
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Fratelli Alessandria

A moment’s reflection is required before understanding the wines of Fratelli Alessandria: all the estate’s vines (except their cru Gramolere) are in the commune of Verduno. Not usually bracketed with familiar and renowned communes, the village sits on the north-eastern border of the region. It’s almost more of an extension of neighbouring Roero, with sandier soils and a moderating influence from the Tanaro river. All this adds up to a lighter, more delicate and perfumed style of Barolo – of which Fratelli Alessandria are brilliant exponents.
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