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The Story
Conterno’s Monfortino is a heavyweight contender for the best Barolo around, and it definitely has our vote. It’s a matchless experience of power paired with subtlety and the effect is quite seductive. As it opens, you’ll experience classic hints of rose, earthy black truffles, cigar box, and anise in a boldly structured wine that’s still quite fresh.
Antonio Galloni of Vinous said it’s a “magnificent” wine that “explodes from the glass wi...
Vuosikerta 1951
The 1951 wine vintage in Italy was an excellent, highly successful oasis, completely escaping the cold, rainy disasters that decimated the rest of Europe's major wine regions. While Bordeaux and Burgundy suffered under gloomy, rotting conditions, Italy enjoyed a dry, warm, and highly favorable growing season that produced deeply structured and long-lived classics. In Piedmont, a steady climate allowed late-ripening Nebbiolo grapes to achieve b...
