Paolo Conterno Barolo Ginestra 2018

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Vintage
2018

Size
750ML

ABV
15%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Dark garnet red. Elegant, round nose with lingering fruity, spicy, balsamic and mineral undertones. Strong, warm body, with powerful aromas and well-balanced flavors. Long, intense finish. Lends itself to lengthy ageing, with a cellar life even extending to over fifteen years.

Pairs well with roast veal, rump steak cooked in Barolo wine, mature cheeses.

Professional Ratings

  • 96
    Flavors of dark cherry and red apple skin surge across the palate, infused with notes of juniper, mint and thyme in this energetic wine. Its dense, powerful tannins intertwine with lively acidity, propelling the flavors toward a long and herb-inflected finish.
  • 93

    A sleek style, featuring cherry, plum, iron, coffee ground and tobacco flavors allied to a dense matrix of tannins. Turns even more tense and sinewy on the finish, where earth and tobacco accents echo. Best from 2025 through 2043.

  • 93
    Aromas of wild strawberries, raspberries and rose petals, as well as sous-bois notes of damp leaves and mushrooms. Medium-bodied with firm tannins and a long, focused finish. Showing some structure for 2018. Needs plenty of time. Best from 2025.
  • 92
    The Paolo Conterno 2018 Barolo Ginestra is a little muddled in appearance with a hint of grayish garnet. The wine's color may not be totally luminous, but the bouquet is quite articulate with wild berry, aniseed, licorice and blood orange. There is a pronounced layered of oak spice at the back (following extended aging in traditional botti) that will need more time to integrate. The wine ends with a combination of sour cherry, dusty limestone earth and 15% alcohol.

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Paolo Conterno

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Paolo Conterno, Italy
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It all started way back in 1886, when Paolo Conterno founded the Casa della Ginestra, dedicated to the production of Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto wines. An indefatigable worker with a mind of great intuition, he devoted the most favourable parts of the Ginestra hillside to the growing of the grapes, subdividing them by type, exposure and terrain. Furthermore, he had the foresight to predict the existence of a market of connoisseurs of superior quality products, selling his own wine in wooden kegs and produced by himself in his own cellar. Paolo was succeeded by his son Carlo and his wife Giuseppina. The company was subsequently run by Paolo and Caterina Conterno and today the company is managed by their son Giorgio.

As in the past, each of us makes his own contribution, caring for the vineyards with scrupulous dedication, involving the successive generations. At one time, trust was placed in the few means available, and in perseverance and determination. Modern technology, with its labour-saving devices, spares us the exertions of those times and, in part thanks to the experience we have gained, enables us to operate in the best possible way and to reap great satisfaction and ever newer stimuli from our work

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Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area, as well as in the neighboring Valle d’Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piedmontese villages of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Somm Secret—If you’re new to Nebbiolo, start with a charming, wallet-friendly, early-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba.

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The center of the production of the world’s most exclusive and age-worthy red wines made from Nebbiolo, the Barolo wine region includes five core townships: La Morra, Monforte d’Alba, Serralunga d’Alba, Castiglione Falletto and the Barolo village itself, as well as a few outlying villages. The landscape of Barolo, characterized by prominent and castle-topped hills, is full of history and romance centered on the Nebbiolo grape. Its wines, with the signature “tar and roses” aromas, have a deceptively light garnet color but full presence on the palate and plenty of tannins and acidity. In a well-made Barolo wine, one can expect to find complexity and good evolution with notes of, for example, strawberry, cherry, plum, leather, truffle, anise, fresh and dried herbs, tobacco and violets.

There are two predominant soil types here, which distinguish Barolo from the lesser surrounding areas. Compact and fertile Tortonian sandy marls define the vineyards farthest west and at higher elevations. Typically the Barolo wines coming from this side, from La Morra and Barolo, can be approachable relatively early on in their evolution and represent the “feminine” side of Barolo, often closer in style to Barbaresco with elegant perfume and fresh fruit.

On the eastern side of the Barolo wine region, Helvetian soils of compressed sandstone and chalks are less fertile, producing wines with intense body, power and structured tannins. This more “masculine” style comes from Monforte d’Alba and Serralunga d’Alba. The township of Castiglione Falletto covers a spine with both soil types.

The best Barolo wines need 10-15 years before they are ready to drink, and can further age for several decades.

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