who has run the domaine since 2011
overseeing 40 parcels of prime vineyard spread across the appellation
and Tre Tine combines fruit from Ravera
Still unmistakably Wachau: cool
The most affordable way to taste what makes this stretch of the Rhine so special
Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE who has run the domaineA double magnum (3L) of Burlotto's foot trodden flagship the wine that, more than any other, made Verduno's Monvigliero cru famous worldwide. Fabio Alessandria, in the cellar since the early 2000s, treats this cru with techniques that vanished from the Langhe by the 1980s: whole cluster foot treading in open vats, indigenous yeasts, and a roughly 60 day skin maceration before long aging in large wood. The 2009 vintage was warm and generous, and in