Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune di Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2021 Gewürztraminer with ripe nectarine

with ripe nectarine

grandsons of the founder Umberto who led the company for many years

Perfectly balanced with fine-grained tannins

As a matter of fact

The wine comes from a single vineyard of decomposed granite soils

Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune di Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2021 Gewürztraminer with ripe nectarineThis is the cellar stuffer. If you're going to lay some Barolo into the gas tank to have on hand and crush with a nice steak, or at the end of a long week, this is IT. Indeed, in recent memory at a tasting with Shop friends clients and winemaker Vittore Alessandria, while we had open some truly fabulous wines stretching back into the '90s, the showstopper of the evening, for me and others, was a 2006 bottling of this wine, Alessandria's more minor