Rivella Serafino Barbaresco Montestefano 2018 750ml

Description

I tasted this unicorn wine in a restaurant, and although my bottle was initially closed, I had the opportunity to taste it over a longer period over dinner. The Rivella Serafino di Rivella Teobaldo 2018 Barbaresco Montestefano starts off shy but opens gradually to sweet cassis and dried blueberry that blurs lines with tea leaf and lilac. The tannins are fine, with a hint of chalkiness, but they feel accurate, considering my bottle had a bit of age on it.

• 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.