Description
The 2021 Barbaresco Montestefano is every bit as compelling as it was last year. If anything, the 2021 has started to shut down in bottle, which is not surprising at all for a classically built young Nebbiolo. Floral and savory overtones meld into sweet macerated cherry, incense, dried herbs and tobacco. Readers will have to be patient. The 2021 has considerable structure and pedigree, but those elements aren’t on full display today, while acid and tannin are a bit prominent. The 2021 saw 45 days on the skins, including a period of submerged cap maceration, then about 30 months in cask.
- Country: Italy
- Region: Piedmont
- Appellation: Barbaresco
- Size: 750ml
- Color: Red
Varietal
Nebbiolo
The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy’s finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means ‘fog’ in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.
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