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94 Points! So beautiful to smell with subtle dried flowers, ripe strawberries, cedar and sandalwood. Medium-to full-bodied with tight, chewy tannins that are fine-grained and firm. Succulent acidity at the finish for such a ripe year. Give this three to four years to come together. Better after 2022. - JamesSuckling.com

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93 Points! The Musso 2015 Barbaresco Riserva Pora offers hints of dried cherry and dark fruit with dustings of sweet pipe tobacco. The wine is streamlined and elegant in terms of mouthfeel, although the bouquet is a notch richer and more concentrated in this warm vintage. One noticeable thing about this Riserva Pora is how soft and integrated the tannins are. - Monica Larner, robertparker.com

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94 Points! The Paitin 2017 Barbaresco Serraboella Sorì Paitin shows a level of finesse and elegance that is rare to find in this hot and dry vintage. The wine delivers seamless transitions with aromas of wild fruit, ferrous earth, licorice, tar and crushed flowers. Those nuances are delivered with enormous purity and focus, rendering a super delicate and finessed expression. There is a touch of tannin tightness here, this being the only sign of the summer heat, but the wine unfolds smoothly nonetheless. - Monica Larner, robertparker.com

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93 Points! Bric Balin is a proprietor name for a 2.4-hectare site within the Muncagota cru. The Moccagatta 2018 Barbaresco Bric Balin is a beautifully dense and rich expression, with deep layers of dark fruit and plenty of steady intensity. it is powered by a 15% alcohol content that is not overly noticeable. The wine is structured and tight with an especially developed texture and structure that adds to the wine's overall length and staying power. The Bric Balin shows an elegant, firm and well-etched side of the vintage and offers us a fine wine from Moccagatta. - Monica Larner, robertparker.com Learn More

Sourced primarily with Nebbiolo and Barbera from the famed Pajore Cru in Barbaresco, this wine also sees some additional fruit from Serralunga in Barolo. This is the finest version of this wine we've ever tasted...elegant, Burgundian, perfumed, with gossamer tannins...amazing!

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Piedmont's finest sparkling wine may be this impossibly fine gem from the Germano family. 75% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, 30 months en tirage.

From the importer: The sparkling wine appellation 'Alta Langa' is very recent, established only in 2002. It’s immediately south of the Langhe, where Barolo and Barbaresco are grown, but at higher elevation, hence 'Alta' (high). Germano’s vineyards Cigliè vineyards fall within the appellation and he makes an Alta Langa Spumante from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

The most famous 'classic' (ie Champagne method, Champagne varieties) sparkling wines made in Italy are from Franciacorta, in Lombardy, but I prefer the best examples from the Alta Langa, and a bottle of this will show you why. The character of the terroir (high altitude and limestone rich soil) is clearly present, along with the flavors that come from the winemaking.

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Stellar value here! From the winery: The Langhe Nebbiolo is produced from the 3.7 ha vineyard of Basarin, in the area of Neive. It is an historical and very prestigious vineyard. Its position on the border between the zone of Neive and Treiso, together with the high altitude, give to the wines a particular note of spices with a hint of licorice, as well a great complexity and a considerable structure. The vines are very young, about 14-15 years old, and for this reason the grapes cannot yet express the richness of polyphenols or all the aromas and the “nuances” that an important cru like this could have. That’s why we decided to declassify it from Barbaresco DOCG to Langhe Nebbiolo.

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