Langhe Nebbiolo

This is the estate's young-vine declassification, first bottled in 2019 from the parcel where the family's old Dolcetto vines were pulled and replanted to Nebbiolo, still inside the Montestefano cru on marl and limestone. Production is tiny - around 2,500 bottles in recent vintages - and the wine is made in the same traditional register as the Barbaresco, just shorter: fermentation and skin contact in steel for about 20 days, then several months in large oak before bottling. 2023 was a difficult, hot and uneven year in Langhe with peak summer temperatures near 40C, but cooler nights at the end of the season preserved acidity and aromatics in Nebbiolo, yielding modest volumes of drinkable, balanced wines. A baby Montestefano in everything but cellar time.