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2017 Barolo, Monvigliero, Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Nebbiolo
Ready - youthful
Product: 20171314364
2017 Barolo, Monvigliero, Fratelli Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Description

Verduno’s finest site, Monvigliero is large (25 hectares); the estate has four plots of vines – nearly 50 years old and totalling 1.4 hectares – right in the vineyard’s sweet spot. The soils are white, steep and south facing; the wines are startlingly fresh. Yet the wine is profound, a woven basket of cherry and pepper spice, sealed with talc-like tannins. Drink 2025-2040.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
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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