Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE and a piece of Piedmontese

and a piece of Piedmontese history

Made with organically farmed fruit and minimal intervention

generous vintage in the Loire

a rarity in post-phylloxera Barolo

Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE and a piece of PiedmonteseA double magnum (3L) of Burlotto's foot trodden flagship the wine that, more than any other, made Verduno's Monvigliero cru famous worldwide. Fabio Alessandria, in the cellar since the early 2000s, treats this cru with techniques that vanished from the Langhe by the 1980s: whole cluster foot treading in open vats, indigenous yeasts, and a roughly 60 day skin maceration before long aging in large wood. The 2009 vintage was warm and generous, and in