Gattinara

The 2015 is the estate Gattinara from the final Norwegian-era vintages, bottled before Roberto Conterno's 2018 takeover and the cellar overhaul that followed. It is a blend across the Nervi holdings on Gattinara's red porphyry and gravel soils, vinified as 100 percent Nebbiolo and aged for around three years in a mix of Slavonian and French large casks before bottling. The 2015 growing season in Alto Piemonte was warm and dry after a cool winter, yielding healthy, ripe Nebbiolo with concentration on the upper end for the region. Expect the lifted, ferrous, fine-tannined profile that defines volcanic Gattinara rather than the muscle of southern Langhe.