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Comm. G.B. Burlotto
Barolo
2021
4.3
Region
Italy › Piedmont › Barolo DOCG
Type
red · still
Grapes
Nebbiolo
Alcohol
14.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(1)
4.3
Super young, tight, packed - it really wants years in bottle, and yet it's already so perfumed and delicious that the sheer wall of tannin doesn't matter. Fresh strawberry and bright cherry, violet, dusty dry earth, thyme, a hint of spice. Juicy focused acidity and remarkably fine, light tannins, finishing clean and earthy and somehow light on its feet. Complex and ultra-delicious.
About
Burlotto is one of the great traditional names of the Barolo zone, a small family estate in Verduno run today by Fabio Alessandria, the founder's great-great-grandson. The house made Verduno famous in the nineteenth century and is best known now for its Monvigliero, but the straight Barolo is the foundation of the range.
This is the estate's classico - not a single cru but an assemblage of Nebbiolo from several family parcels around Verduno (Breri, Neirane, Rocche dell'Olmo, Boscatto), blended for harmony year after year. The fruit is de-stemmed and fermented in open vats with gentle pump-overs and punch-downs, then aged around two years in large old oak botti - the classic method, no shortcuts. It sits below the single crus but speaks the same language: perfumed, red-fruited and finely structured, the elegant, aromatic style Verduno is loved for. 2021 was a balanced, classically-shaped vintage in Barolo, which suits this wine well.
