2018 Cappellano Barolo Chinato, Piedmont, ItalyABOUT THIS WINE Cappellano's Barolo Chinato is based on aged Barolo made from 100% Nebbiolo grown in the prestigious Gabutti vineyard in Serralunga dAlba. To this, the family adds a secret infusion of over 20 herbs and spicesbelieved to include cinchona (quinine), cardamom, cinnamon, rhubarb root, and other botanicalsfollowing a 19th century recipe created by Giuseppe Cappellano, who is credited as the originator of Barolo Chinato. The base wine

The clay-siliceous soils display more biting wines mixed with spicy and flinty aromas

with a higher percentage of new oak (around 60–70%) to match the density and grandeur of the site

the 2020 is deeply colored

For nearly two decades

Prosser and Paul Carriere

rare and precious

the mountain arches towards the sun and the Rhine does as a mirror its remainder

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A short period of lees contact added texture and complexity without masking freshness

100% massal selections of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

but with the unique

Saint-Cosme’s Gigondas is considered a benchmark for the appellation