Description
With Enrico Dellapiana’s artwork on the front label, the 2016 Barbaresco Rizzi Riserva Vigna Boito shows impressive depth and character. The wine comes out roaring with fresh acidity and all sorts of currants and wild berries. There is some nice minerality too. This wine is the symbolic future of this estate—tight, sharp and focused—and at this point, it is almost ready to enjoy. Maybe give it just another few years. About 4,600 bottles were released.
- 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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