Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2014 vintage-favorites bottled without filtering

bottled without filtering

Beta is the project of winemaker Ketan Mody

The 2013 vintage in Piedmont was all about finesse and clarity

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Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2014 vintage-favorites bottled without filteringThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. The late, iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, against all conventional wisdom about phylloxera; today his son Augusto carries the work forward. Made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old botti, it's one of Piedmont's most coveted bottles. The 2014, from