Prunotto, Barbaresco Riserva, 1980 BRUNELLODI040225 it’s smooth and balanced

it’s smooth and balanced

Chateau Sainte-Marie is a Dupuch family estate in Entre-Deux-Mers — the broad swath of land between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers that has long been Bordeaux's white-wine heartland — and a longtime benchmark for crisp

After ten months of maceration

raspberries

then finished and bottled unfined and unfiltered

Prunotto, Barbaresco Riserva, 1980 BRUNELLODI040225 it’s smooth and balancedA 46 year old Barbaresco Riserva from Beppe Colla's prime years at Prunotto. Before the 1989 1994 Antinori sale, Beppe Colla guided Prunotto from the 1950s through the 1980s to become one of Piedmont's most respected addresses a single vineyard pioneer, deeply traditional in cellar, devoted (as he put it) to wines tasting first of fruit and soil and never of technology. 1980 was an excellent, harmoniously balanced Piedmont vintage, and a Riserva from