Vietti, Barolo Brunate Vintage:2013 flinty touches to the nose

flinty touches to the nose - it’s still extremely young - with green and red apple notes and some clear slate and wet stone minerality

I am not sure how Angelo Gaja and his team do it

bright ruby-red

Still rather closed in the mouth following the recent bottling

persistency and gloss

Vietti, Barolo Brunate Vintage:2013 flinty touches to the noseThe Barolo Brunate was not made in 2014 because of hail damage. Instead, all the fruit was diverted to the Langhe Nebbiolo Perbacco instead. This newest release, the 2015 Barolo Brunate, definitely makes up for the lost ground. This is an explosive and absolutely exuberant expression of Nebbiolo from a vineyard site in La Morra near M. Marengos property. Vietti farms two parcels here, a higher side of the vineyard and a lower one (near Damilano and