“A super-classic vintage that will thrill readers who like vibrant, refined Baroli”
- Antonio Galloni, Wine Advocate, April 2012
'As with so many red wine regions in France, the cooler, later 2008 growing season in the Piedmont has produced some splendid, structured wines in which terroir character comes through loud and clear. The 2008s are not generally outsized wines but they are dense, fresh and complex, with superb inner-palate definition and energy, and captivating complexity to their fruit, floral, mineral, balsamic and earth tones. Most of the better wines will improve with five to ten years of bottle aging and have the spine and energy to evolve gracefully.' - Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar, Oct/Nov 2011
The 2008 Barolo vintage was a cool one with a sunny autumn that has made wines that show off their terroir beautifully. La Morra's soil is rich, clayey and gives the wines a delicious fruit character; they're amongst the most perfumed and supple in the region, and some of the easiest to drink young.
Here are three La Morra superstars ranging from the household name to the virtual unknown, but in the case of the latter - Marengo - he has perfectly positioned and beautifully managed vines from which he crafts polished and characterful wines. Elio Altare has until 2007 bought some fruit from Marengo, but he has enough of his own great vineyard to provide what he needs. He was a pioneering modernista in the region, introducing rotary fermenters and barrique ageing sur lie in order to make supple, unforced but generous wines and his own traditions are maintained by his daughters today. Roberto Voerzio is almost an Altare disciple and his polished and full expressions of La Morra are as generous as the man himself. /CW
Offered subject to confirmation for shipment 2013
