Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE The most affordable way to

The most affordable way to taste what makes this stretch of the Rhine so special

with a saline lift that reads more Cote-Rotie understudy than New World ripeness

and Tre Tine combines fruit from Ravera

a rarity in post-phylloxera Barolo

overseeing 40 parcels of prime vineyard spread across the appellation

Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) 120725NRHONE The most affordable way toA 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