where thick-skinned grapes develop concentrated color and flavor from extended hang time above the fog line
A standout for lovers of cool-climate
and harder terrain produce a Pinot Noir with lush ripeness and voluptuous tannins that outpace Champans in richness
and the kind of structure that makes it dinner-table wine rather than poolside filler
The 2005 vintage was one of the great Châteauneuf years of the modern era — concentrated
Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2010 so011624 jura roundup offer where thick-skinned grapes develop concentratedThe unicorn of all Barolo unicorns: Pie Franco is bottled only in vintages the family deems worthy, from ungrafted, own rooted Nebbiolo (Michet clone) that the late Teobaldo Cappellano planted in 1989 in the Otin Fiorin parcel of the Gabutti cru, Serralunga d'Alba. "Franco" means the vines grow on their own European rootstock rather than grafted American stock an obsessive, almost extinct way of farming Nebbiolo, and the source of this wine's near