Luigi Giordano Barbaresco Montestefano 2018 Featured complexity

complexity

Terrific release

juicy and fruit-forward with notes of sliced strawberries

offering excellent aging potential

99 James Suckling: The tightness and tension of this is impressive considering the youngest wine from this is 2015 (hot and dry year)

Luigi Giordano Barbaresco Montestefano 2018 Featured complexityMontestefano is the most historic vineyard in the appellation, the first in all of Barbaresco to be bottled as a single cru, in 1961 by Beppe Colla; the Giordano family's first bottling dates back to 1971. Montestefano is prized for its heavy, blue toned clay soils famous for producing structured, powerful, deeply colored wines, which have been described as 'the most Barolo among Barbarescos,' wiht unmistakable notes of leather, tobacco, and truffle,