
2022
Region
Italy › Piedmont › Langhe DOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Nebbiolo
Alcohol
13.5%
Volume
750 mL
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Nine months later and it's still fighting - the nose a bit closed, the palate all elbows. Same register underneath: cherry, tea leaf, dried flowers, earth, with grainy tannins and acidity that still nips. None of that stops it from being beautiful and dangerously quaffable. Absolutely delicious - the class was never in question, only the timing.
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.