Vintage 1974
The 1974 wine vintage in Italy was a good, highly successful, and classically structured year, standing out as a wonderful sanctuary of quality away from the rain-soaked harvest failures of France. A steady, warm growing season followed by a beautifully dry and sunny autumn allowed late-ripening grapes to achieve excellent phenolic maturity while retaining a vibrant, refreshing backbone of natural acidity. In Piedmont, this ideal climate birth...