2017 Ruggeri Corsini - Barolo San Pietro

A Piedmontese classic, Barbera is the mainstay of the farm, representing 40- 45% of production. Made and aged in steel tanks. Quite dark, full, earthy and meaty, and carried by delicious acidity, the grape’s signature. 1,200-1,600 cases annually.

DOC rules for Langhe Nebbiolo require 85% of the wine to be from the
declared variety and vintage. Corsini’s is 100% Nebbiolo entirely from the declared vintage.
This class of Nebbiolo has become the wine of choice for aficionados who can’t afford to
drink Barolo every evening and who know that such wines often contain declassified
Barbaresco or Barolo.

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From just over 3 acres of vines growing rather high on the hillside at
a southeastern exposure in thin, sandy topsoil. The most traditional of the farm’s Barolos,
aged strictly in large old Slavonian oak casks (the forests are in Croatia) known as botte, or foudre in French. There is often a chalky minerality in this wine. Roughly 500 cases
annually.

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