Where it's from:
>Italy
>Piemonte (Piedmont)
>Barolo
Price per case:
£873.05
Bottle size:
1.5 Litres
Bottles per case:
3
Style:
Powerful Reds
Grapes:
Nebbiolo
Description:
The estate, started by Giacomo Voerzio in the 1950's, has been run by his son Roberto since the 1980's and has done exceedingly well under this new regime. Considered by many to be the leading producer of the region, Roberto Voerzio is an outspoken modernist (in the same school as Scavino, Sandrone, and Clerico) and is understandably, unabashedly proud of his own estate and techniques. Voerzio's highly concentrated wines are the result of the very low yields he enforces in the vineyard, leaving 8 buds per vine. If the summer is exceptional, it is left as is and yields little more than 1 bottle per vine, approximately 2 tons per acre. If the weather is rainy and cool in late August or early September, production is reduced. Ageing for 27 months using a combination of new, 1 and 2 year old barrique has produced a deep ruby red coloured wine. With aromas of violet, spices, marmelade of fruit raspberry, liquorice, this wine is well structured, mouth-filling, with sweet, enveloping tannins with a persistent licorice finish. Available in Magnum Bottles.