Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 so there's no blending to

so there's no blending to sand down the edges

The 2020 was fermented in stainless steel and aged in French oak barriques for refinement

He trained with Julian Haart

or the old-school Napa lover

The winemaking is thoroughly Burgundian: hand-harvest

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 so there's no blending toThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old