2/9/18 Vietti Friday Sips


Vietti Friday Sips
Today February 9 from 3:00 - 6:00
Drop by today to meet and taste with Special Guest, Vietti winemaker Luca Currado who will be featuring 5 of his prominent Piedmont selections and signing bottles. A surprise or two may emerge as well!


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2015 VIETTI BARBERA D'ASTI
TRE VIGNE
$16.99 BTL./$203.88 CASE

Here we go again…the ever-popular Barbera D'Asti Tre Vigne. One of Italy’s finest wines for under 20 dollars, it is made from 3 parcels in Agliano Terme within the Asti zone.

A kickass nose reveals itself instantly from the first moment it is poured. Smoked blackberry, chocolate powder, licorice and mineral earth nuances emerge and follow through to a voluptuous penetrating fruit-driven texture that is framed by sleek bright tones and an expansive finish.



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2015 VIETTI BARBERA D'ALBA
VIGNA SCARRONE
$39.99 BTL./$239.94 - SIX PACK

Scarrone is a super-special site for Barbera. A single vineyard in Castiglione Faletto, that if it were planted to Nebbiolo, it would be called Barolo. Year in and year out, this Barbera confirms its terroir and after a few years bottle age, you think that you are actually smelling Barolo. However, this is full-on, ravishing Barbera right now that epitomizes beauty!

Vietti's 2015 Scarrone is red nectar. Exquisitely detailed and dramatic with alluring aromas of red plums, nutmeg, mineral, vanilla and pepper. Mouthfilling juice whose polished and refined flavors cut through the deep fruit, carrying over to a palate-staining finish that is regal and super-long. Aslo ages very well.



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2015 VIETTI BARBERA D'ALBA
LA CRENA
$39.99 BTL./$239.94 - SIX PACK

From the La Crena vineyard where the oldest vines were planted in 1932, this is profound Profound Barbera and is smooth like mayonnaise! Deep, alluring and integrated all while showing typical Asti red-earth traits along with sheer intensity of the fruit that comes from these old vines; ardent and symphonic, the La Crena runs the gamut of complexity from blackberry fruit and rose petal to subtle chocolate and mineral tones. Another excellent choice for an ageworthy Barbera.



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2014 VIETTI NEBBIOLO LANGHE PERBACCO
$26.99 BTL./$323.88 CASE

By now, everyone knows the story behind this wine as well as the character and commitment of Luca Currado. Perbacco could legitimately be called Barolo because it is aged for the 2 years required in barrel with all of the grapes coming from Vietti’s many single vineyards within the Barolo zone. Not wanting to bastardize the Barolo name and to undercut the Castiglione, Luca chooses softer and accessible lots and labels it as Nebbiolo Langhe. Many producers would make a wine like this; label it as Barolo, then charge a hell of a lot more money.

Possessing a stylishly stunning nose, this is the absolute essence of Nebbiolo and of Piedmont. Prominent strawberry licorice nose surrounded by camphor, mushroom and roses with excellent vibrancy and a beautiful sense of detail. Finesseful, regal and very ethereal wine in the mouth that shows scintillating red fruits and purity. Here is an accessible wine that has sneaky backbone, refinement and a finish that fans out over the entire palate. Drink over the next 5-6 years.



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2013 VIETTI BAROLO CASTIGLIONE
$47.99 BTL./287.94 - SIX PACK

Undoubtedly this is one of the most outstanding price/quality rapport Barolo we work with year in and year out. Vietti's Castiglione Barolo is way, way more than just an entry-level offering. In fact, this could be broken down by vineyard and Luca Currado could legitimately produce numerous different single cru wines from this. As a tribute to the generations before him, Luca takes all of these small lots, ferments them separately and then blends them into one hell of a serious Barolo that is a ridiculous steal for its price level!

Devastatingly beautiful, this is almost a creature with bad intentions! Intense nose of camphor, red cherry, Indian spices, chocolate licorice and mineral. Powerfully put-together, stacked and very, very classic. Rich with waves of flavor, but very, very structured and sinister and needing to settle down as the wine will undoubtedly smooth out and caress the palate after a few years of cellaring. Long, long and long as hell…this is a real sum of many great parts.



VIETTI GRAND CRU TREASURES AVAILABLE
(not being poured this evening)


2013 VIETTI BAROLO BRUNATE $155.00

2 btls available - 96 pts. Vinous



2013 VIETTI BAROLO ROCCHE DI CASTIGLIONE $165.00

2 btls available - 96 pts. Vinous



2013 VIETTI BAROLO RAVERA $199.00

2 btls available - 100 pts. Vinous



2013 VIETTI BAROLO LAZZARITO $165.00

2 btls available - 96 pts. Vinous



2013 VIETTI BARBARESCO MASSERIA $105.00

1 btl available - 95 points - Vinous


2008 VIETTI BAROLO BRUNATE $125.00

1 btl available


2011 VIETTI BAROLO ROCCHE DI CASTIGLIONE $130.00

1 btls available - 96 pts. Vinous




MORE VIETTI WINES AVAILABLE BY SPECIAL ORDER

2016 VIETTI DOLCETTO D'ALBA TRE VIGNE $19.99

2016 VIETTI ARNEIS $22.99

2017 VIETTI MOSCATO D'AST 'CASCINETTA' $13.99

2015 VIETTI BARBERA D'ABLA SCARRONE VIGNA VECCHIA $79.99