Piedmont Wines
Piedmont Wines
As one of Italy’s most reputable and revered wine regions, Piedmont enjoys a lot of well-deserved praise and attention. The region’s placement in the Alpine foothills creates a unique microclimate, where winters are noticeably colder, and the summers are close to what you’d experience in Burgundy. As you might imagine, this environment allows for a lot of versatility and diversity when it comes to wine flavors and styles. For a wine lover, exploring Piedmont feels like they’re a child again, exploring a vast, colorful candy store; you just don’t know where to start!
The diverse soil composition of Piedmont allows many popular grape varietals to thrive, including Nebbiolo, Barbera, Moscato, and Dolcetto. Depending on who you buy from, you can expect to experience many different aromatics and flavor traces, including dried herbs, rose petals, juicy and plump cherries, star anise, minerals, and many more. It’s this mind-boggling versatility that compels the curious, this promise of semi-familiar yet intriguing pleasures, and wines that stimulate the mind as much as they caress the palate.
Food is a crucial part of Italy’s cultural identity, and connoisseurs of good food often find themselves falling in love with the wine that accompanies it. Piedmont is approachable enough to help you create magical feasts and meals, and what better way to enjoy them than by sharing with the people closest to your heart. Whether you’re a decorated wine veteran or a newbie, this region has so, so much to offer you. The longevity of Piedmont wines is impressive enough to last a decade or two and develop even more compelling subtleties and nuances. How can you resist?
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1943 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino Riserva92VMConterno’s 1943 Barolo Monfortino is quite good, but this is not the best bottle I have run across. In my experience, once past the 1970s, older Monfortinos are highly variab..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $1,855.00 -
1958 Giacomo Conterno Barolo95JSThis was a huge surprise for a birthday party for me at 8 1/2 restaurant in Hong Kong. It's so dense and compacted with a smoked porcini and dried cherry character. Oily and intens..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $655.00 -
1961 Giacomo Conterno Barolo93JG(Barolo- Giacomo Conterno) The 1961 Barolo from Giovanni Conterno is a great wine and will make no one pine for Monfortino when this natural beauty is in the glass. I have been for..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $625.00 -
1961 Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino Riserva95VMA comparison of two 1961s from Giacomo Conterno is next. Conterno’s 1961 Barolo Riserva Speciale Monfortino is, not surprisingly, deeper and more intense in all of its dimens..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $1,935.00 -
1964 Gaja Barbaresco95RP1964 Barbaresco—Dinner at a local restaurant provided an opportunity to try this beautiful wine from a perfectly stored bottle. The color is very light, pale red. This 1964 s..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $410.00 -
1964 Giacomo Conterno Barolo92VMThe 1964 Barolo shows more fruit, depth and richness, with sweet mentholated notes that add complexity to the spiced fruit. Both the 1961 and 1964 are fully mature, and even under ..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $550.00 -
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1971 Fontanafredda Barolo91RPThe 1971 Fontanafredda is a beautiful, fully mature Barolo. It offers an evolved nose of leather, tobacco, spices, and meat. The fruit has mostly faded, and although the wine off..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $105.00 -
1971 Marchesi di Barolo Barolo90JGI like the overall balance a bit better on the 1971 Barolo Normale from Marchesi di Barolo than I do on either the 1978 or the 1982 Riservas, but this too is going to want drinking..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $115.00 -
1978 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Pugnane93VMThese three 1978s from Bruno Giacosa were all lovely. None are considered among his very best work by thecognoscenti, so they remain somewhat under the radar, but they are jewels j..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $1,855.00
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1978 Gaja Barbaresco96VMGaja’s 1978 Barbaresco was a stunning wine with which to open our foray into the Barolos and Barbarescos of this historic vintage. The Pinot-like aromas alone were captivatin..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $520.00 -
1978 Gaja Barbaresco Sori San Lorenzo96VMGaja's 1978 Barbaresco Sorì San Lorenzo is another epic wine. Veins of underlying structure and acidity give the 1978 much of its power, shape and pure volume. A huge, struc..." Learn MoreFormats Available:As low as $780.00
