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2011 Barolo, Cannubi, Serio & Battista Borgogno, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful
Monica Larner
88/100
Product: 20118016669
2011 Barolo, Cannubi, Serio & Battista Borgogno, Piedmont, Italy

Description

This is an especially fine and pretty kirsch red fruited example of the the Cannubi vineyard in the village of Barolo, as made by the Borgogno family at the vineyard's heart, from the sunny, earlier drinking 2011 vintage: a blend of three different parcels of Cannubi, 'Cane' (named after the previous owenr), 'Nuova' and 'Battista' (the most favoured, south facing), vinified by owner Marco, his daughter Emanuela and their new enologo Luca, this particular bottling comes from one single 50hl slavonian botte (barrel) # 19, selected by me.

Pale strawberry red in colour, the nose sings with delicate strawberry and tea leaf notes, refined and persistent; to taste meanwhile, it's generously fleshy, with sumptuous summer fruit, fresh and lively. Indeed it possesses an almost glass slipper quality, with porcelain cassis fruit and immense charm. Bottled mid December 2014, having been fermented in large oak before being racked to botte #19, the three years' wood ageing has meant that no stabilising, clarifying or filtering has been required, so retaining the wine's intrinsic, stripping nothing away.

David Berry Green
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2011
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Nebbiolo
Body Full Bodied
Producer Serio & Battista Borgogno, Piedmont

Critics reviews

Monica Larner 88/100
These wines from Fratelli Serio & Battista Borgogno seem to benefit from warmer growing conditions. The fruit often appears bitter and unripe in the cooler vintages. From a very hot year, the 2011 Barolo Cannubi reveals thick layers of black cherry, dried tobacco and leather. It offers limited complexity, but delivers brawn and muscle instead. This is a near-term Barolo to drink within the next 5 years.Monica Larner - 29/06/2018
Monica Larner, RobertParker.com (Jun 2018)

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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Serio & Battista Borgogno, Piedmont

Lying in the heart of one of Barolo’s most famous vineyard’s Cannubi in the village of Barolo, this small, traditional, 5th generation family-owned cantina (winery) dates back to 1897, and to Cavalier Francesco Borgogno. More recently it was his descendants, brothers Serio and Battista Borgogno who set about developing the cantina during the 1960s and ‘70s when the emphasis was largely on quantity not quality, buying in fruit/wine to fill their outsized winery. Today the baton has been passed to Serio’s daughters Anna (Bolla) and Paola (Boffa) and in turn their offspring Emanuela and Federica respectively. Anna’s husband Marco is making the wine, aided by Emanuela and since 2012 by enologo Luca Sarotto. These days the focus is increasingly on their vineyard holding of Cannubi, with plots facing south, north/east and west, while they continue to buy some fruit in for a separate white label range.   Vinification is traditional, fermenting in large wooden vats, before racking to Garbellotto and Veneto slavonian oak botte of up to 52hl for traditionally long affinamento/elevage. Bottling takes place without fining or filtering. They also release a long aged Riserva in good years.
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