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Barbaresco "Sori Paolin", Cascina Luisin - 2017

Name: Barbaresco "Sori Paolin", Cascina Luisin
Brand: Cascina Luisin
SKU: 23857
Price: 51.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 23857 750 mL

A Barbaresco from a small family estate with a mere 7 hectares of vines that are 40 years old. The structure is emphasized by the minerals and it's the type of Nebbiolo that can only be from Piedmont.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2017

Country

Italy

Region

Piedmont

Sub-Region

Barbaresco

Producer

Cascina Luisin

Grape Variety

Nebbiolo

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Staff Pick Notes

The Minuto family, of which Cascina Luisin’s current proprietor Roberto Minuto is the eighth generation, have been producing and selling their own wines since the 1860s, when they would lug demijohns up to the market in Turin via oxcart. Encompassing eight hectares worth of 45- to 65-year-old vines, Cascina Luisin produces expressive, highly traditional wines from some of Barbaresco’s greatest sites (including Asili and Rabaja). As with all of the estate’s Barbaresco, this ferments naturally in concrete and ages in large custom-built Stockinger casks of Slavonian-oak origin. “Paolin” offers a sense of understated elegance wed to a mouthwatering mineral tension that feels close to a platonic ideal of Barbaresco, and it is strikingly accessible even in an early stage of its development. Pair with short rib bolognese over fettuccini.

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Glossary

Piedmont

The most famous grape in Piedmont is the noble Nebbiolo, which makes the long-lived Barolo and Barbaresco. There are plenty of Nebbiolo-based wines that are quite enjoyable in their youth, however, often produced in smaller, lesser-known regions such as Ghemme or Gattinara. Several other Piedmontese grapes make striking and delicious wines: Pelaverga produces light-colored reds with distinctive notes of strawberry, cherry, and pink peppercorn. The red Freisa is vinified in a variety of styles:...