{"id":4171,"date":"2021-12-07T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2021-12-08T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:50:39","slug":"delicious-sleeper-barbaresco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2021\/12\/07\/delicious-sleeper-barbaresco\/","title":{"rendered":"DELICIOUS ‘SLEEPER’ BARBARESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Given our experience, we can tell you a thing or two about the big reds of Piedmont.\u00a0 First, most folks are content to get into the game when a highly regarded vintage comes along.\u00a0 Relative to that, as we are on the downside of the heralded 2016 vintage, you might want to take a last glance at the remaining 2016<\/strong> Barolos<\/a> and Barbarescos<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This was a special vintage even among the high success rate in Piedmont over the last decade or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d also point out that the producers make wine every<\/em> year and not every harvest becomes a vintage of the century in the eyes of the market.  That doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t any worthwhile efforts, just that the \u2018hit ratio\u2019 might be a bit lower.  One can find some pretty thrilling wines in most vintages provided they take the time to look.  The Nada Barbaresco Casot 2018<\/a><\/strong> is an excellent example of what we are talking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to miss little gems like this.\u00a0 This is a small family estate is brought in by a small importer, and the 2018 vintage, while good, isn\u2019t going to get the attention of, say, 2010, 2015, or 2016 from a ‘historic’ standpoint.\u00a0 Still, we did our due diligence and were quite pleased to find this elegant, delightful little spice-box of a single vineyard-Barbaresco at a rather attractive price ( it sells for less than the entry-level bottling from Produttori di Barbaresco by $8).\u00a0 As such, it deserves to get some of your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azienda Agricola Nada Giuseppe was started in 1900, with a vineyard in Casot purchased from a Gaja. In 1964 Giuseppe\u2019s father, Antonio, made the risky decision to begin to estate bottle a part of his production, requiring him to invest in a small winery (he put it in the basement of that house on the Casot hillside). It was a prescient move as, in 1966, the DOC of Barbaresco, named after one of the three villages in the appellation, became established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, Giuseppe and Nella stay fit maintaining the vineyards where they do practically all of the work, while their daughter Barbara manages the office and their son Enrico oversees the wine production down in the cellar. Enrico took the reins in 2008. The additions of SO2 have been greatly reduced and only a light filtration (no fining) is performed in the cellar. The farming has steadily moved to organic and most of the estate is certified organic now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packed with a high-toned, very Nebbiolo character, bursting with spicy red fruits and supported by fine but giving tannins, this Casot is an expressive and appealing example of the genre, exhibiting all of the best traits.\u00a0 As the Wine Advocate review alludes, the appeal was definitely immediate<\/em> but also lasting.\u00a0 It can age, but it doesn\u2019t necessarily need to.\u00a0 The 2018 vintage overall is a lovely, round, accessible vintage that maybe doesn\u2019t have the gravitas or media attention of 2016, but still should not be ignored because of wines like this. At this price, the Casot is a true sleeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Monica Larner of Wine Advocate, “The 2018 Barbaresco Casot is a fragrant and immediate wine that shows a good amount of ripeness and richness up front. This was a cool vintage overall, although the fruit ripened quickly toward the end of the growing season. There are sweet cherry aromas with spice and licorice. The wine drapes over the palate with silky and smooth intensity<\/strong>. The Casot vineyard is distinguished by layers of bluish tufo soil and layers of looser sand…93 points<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given our experience, we can tell you a thing or two about the big reds of Piedmont.\u00a0 First, most folks are content to get into the game when a highly regarded vintage comes along.\u00a0 Relative to that, as we are on the downside of the heralded 2016 vintage, you might want to take a last … Continue reading “DELICIOUS ‘SLEEPER’ BARBARESCO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[578,895,896,79,894,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}