Serafino Rivella, Barbaresco Montestefano, 2001 PZCalifornia hand-tended

hand-tended

This Aligote comes off a valley slope beside the Hautes Cotes village of Fussey at around 470 meters

it’s rich and unctuous yet lifted

Selected from casks that retained delicate flor yeast despite exceeding six years of aging

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Serafino Rivella, Barbaresco Montestefano, 2001 PZCalifornia hand-tendedTeobaldo Rivella walks out of his house into the garden and finds himself standing in Montestefano, one of the greatest sites for Nebbiolo anywhere. That is the whole story of this estate: about two hectares inside a single cru, planted by his father in 1963, and a family that has never seen a reason to complicate it. Rivella makes just two wines from it, the Barbaresco and a serious Dolcetto. Montestefano is the most powerful of Barbaresco's crus,