Giovanni Rosso Langhe Nebbiolo 2022
- Region
- Italy » Piedmont » Langhe DOC
- Type
- red still, dry
- Producer
- Vintage
- 2022
- Grapes
- Nebbiolo
- Alcohol
- 13.5
- Volume
- 750 mL
- Cellar
- 4 bottles
Ratings
It's still wearing its teenage angst like a badge. Rustic and rusty, with tea leaves, cherry, touch of flowers, and proper earth. The tannins are granular and still clenched tight, and that acidity bites harder than it needs to right now. There are painful moments, sure - the wine literally makes you wince sometimes. But beneath the roughness, you can feel the class. This has that stylish severity that good Nebbiolo does so well. Right now, it's cool but confrontational, like it's daring you to love it anyway. And honestly? I do.
Painfully young - the kind of youth that hurts. Not even the flowers, chocolate notes, briar, or tapenade can soften this brutality. Everything crashes into that savage body - screaming acidity and unresolved tannins cutting through like a knife. But is this actually a problem? I'm loving it. Completely not ready, charged with electricity, but fuck me it's delicious. Just violent and gorgeous at the same time. The only secret: several hours in a decanter, otherwise it'll properly punish you. This is masochistic wine drinking at its finest - it hurts so good.
Dried red flowers, chocolate crumbs, briar, and tapenade. Fresh, with acidity that doesn't assault you. Tannins still a touch rough but well integrated - give it another year and they'll be silk. Already delicious though. Has proper Nebbiolo structure but stays friendly about it.
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