and this is made in the same traditional style
The most affordable way to taste what makes this stretch of the Rhine so special
a rarity in post-phylloxera Barolo
and a piece of Piedmontese history
overseeing 40 parcels of prime vineyard spread across the appellation
Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE and this is made inA double magnum (3L) of Burlotto's foot trodden flagship the wine that, more than any other, made Verduno's Monvigliero cru famous worldwide. Fabio Alessandria, in the cellar since the early 2000s, treats this cru with techniques that vanished from the Langhe by the 1980s: whole cluster foot treading in open vats, indigenous yeasts, and a roughly 60 day skin maceration before long aging in large wood. The 2009 vintage was warm and generous, and in