Cavallotto Langhe Nebbiolo 2021 Size::1 Bottle Subtle spice and creamy characters

Subtle spice and creamy characters add to the wines aromatic complexity

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Chocolate and mint as the climax to a luxurious composition of aromas that unfolds in the glass

with clay-limestone soils

Picking into small bins allowed some foot crushing of the fruit to ensure contact with both stalks and skins

Cavallotto Langhe Nebbiolo 2021 Size::1 Bottle Subtle spice and creamy charactersThe fruit for Cavallotto's Langhe designated bottling is 100% Castiglione Falletto Nebbiolo and so could be labelled as Barolo. One sip and you wonder why the Cavallotto's don't sell this as Barolo! The reason they don't is simple: they need to produce a Nebbiolo Langhe for their markets and yet the only Nebbiolo vines they own are in Barolo. So they must 'fashion' a Nebbiolo from these vines. To be specific, the grapes come from both younger, sub 25