Sottimano - Barbaresco DOCG - Currá - Rouge - 2016

Wine:

From a limestone terroir and the oldest vines on the estate, the 2016 red Barbaresco Curra is a sumptuous wine with exceptional aging potential. This is definitely a wine from a great terroir, and nowhere more so than in Barbaresco. This particular terroir doesn't produce the most colorful wines but the most strikingly fine; indeed, this is a striking Nebbiolo, very pure, with lacy fruit on the opening, where the power of the terroir is fully asserted with beautiful accents of spice, dried flowers, rose, undergrowth aromas of great class. The structure is very elegant, with tannins that will become even more refined; a very digestible wine, like all the wines of the estate, which gains in depth with aeration and whose soft finish, with this register of potpourri and rose, is simply magnificent! Rated 97/100 by the Committee.

Vinification:

A wine rated 98/100 by our Committee!
Robert Parker: 95/100

Color:

Bright garnet-carmine red.

Nose:

Subtle aromatic arc with a spicy accent, underlined by aromas of dried roses and undergrowth; all on pure red fruit.

Palate:

This wine combines elegance and refinement with beautiful, silky tannins. Smooth, velvety depth reveals a remarkable juice with a soft, delicately perfumed finish of red fruits mingled with hints of rose. This Niebbiolo with exceptional aging potential will leave you speechless.

Temperature:

Decant before serving, between 16 and 18°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Risotto with porcini mushrooms, roast lamb, brie with truffles.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2040

Guided by an unwavering quest for excellence, Andrea Sottimano produces wines of masterful finesse in Piedmont that are capable of standing the test of time. These providential red wines, full-bodied and sincere, reveal the character of the finest Italian wines, especially those from Barbaresco.

Andrea Sottimano admits that he doesn't speak French very well, but he does speak fluent Burgundian! 

In his Barbaresco wines, he expresses with talent this ultimate research to accompany his Nebbiolo to offer him the brightness, the fineness of fruit and the energy which characterize the greatest wines of Burgundy which he cherishes so much!