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La Spinetta Barbaresco Vigneto Bordini 2007
Piedmont, ItalyIt’s one thing to suggest consumers should age wine at home when you are tasting a vintage (I mean who has the time or the space) but it’s quite another when you taste a wine like Spinetta Barbaresco Bordini after nine years. The south facing vineyard is 4 hectares in size, calcareous in nature, and planted to vines that in 2007 were 20-25 years old at about 270 metres altitude. It’s aged in 50 percent new and one-year-old, medium-toasted French oak for 20 to 22 months. After three months of marriage in stainless steel it is bottled unfiltered and left for another year at the winery. This wine is gorgeous; a picture postcard for aged Barbaresco, it is now red coloured with some orange brick notes and a showy mature nose of floral red berries, umami and spices. The balance is key, lead by silky textures, mature fine grained tannins with just a hint of ripe fruit. Long, complex and food friendly, why wouldn’t you age all you wine before drinking? Braised veal cheeks and/or mushroom risotto are a fabulous match.Tasted: 08 November 2016Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:| AB | $80.00 | 750ml | restaurants, private wine shops |
Grape: NebbioloUPC: 026990040087
