Ceretto Barolo Rocche di Castiglione 2020 750ml

Barolo Rocche di Castiglione comes from one of my favorite sites in Castiglione Falletto that delivers impressive quality year after year. These wines are distinguished by their exacting focus and their fruit purity. This vintage offers a momentary touch of sweetness that is almost fleeting in nature, but it adds a touch more volume and overall momentum. It spreads beautifully over the palate, imparting a salty, mineral-laced finish. This Barolo is aged in French oak for 12 months followed by an additional two years in larger oak. Rocche di Castiglione is characterized by loose soils, and the bedrock underneath is exposed in places. It enjoys southeast exposures that give it a slightly cooler climate, and the vines are planted on an impossibly vertical slope.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Piedmont
• Appellation: Barolo
• 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.