Ceretto Barbaresco Bernardot 2022 750ml

Showing a dark ruby shine, the Ceretto 2022 Barbaresco Bernadot delivers vertical aromas and a beautiful sense of vertical lift. Ceretto always nails it on the head, even in a vintage like 2022 in the middle of a drought and a three-year heat wave. This 4.8-hectare site sees biodynamic farming with excellent results. All the elements are finely tuned and polished. The wine almost twinkles. The tannins feel like silk, and although this vintage is more accessible, you will not regret paying that price for this bottle. It sees 12 months in French oak botte, followed by 12 months in old 300-liter French barrel with 12 more months in bottle.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Piedmont
• Appellation: Barbaresco
• Size: 750ml
• Color: Red

Varietal

Nebbiolo

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy’s finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means ‘fog’ in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.