This Pinot Noir from Belle Pente’s Yamhill-Carlton Cuvee captures the essence of Oregon’s Willamette Valley
high-toned expression of Nebbiolo
the 2021 vintage shows both the power of the site and the precision of the estate’s hands-on winemaking
this Chardonnay grows on marne rouge soils richer in iron than typical marl
the famous Cannubi-hill silk on full display
Prunotto, Barolo Riserva, 1980 so120523_bordeaux This Pinot Noir from BelleBeppe Colla era Prunotto at full maturity, a museum piece from a transformative era. From 1956 to 1994, Beppe Colla and his brother Tino ran Prunotto, and they did nothing less than reshape modern Barolo, inspired by Burgundy to bottle the first single vineyard Barolo (Bussia, in 1961). Their style was uncompromisingly traditional: long macerations, large Slavonian botti, fruit and soil first, never the cellar. This 1980 Riserva carries that signature