Barbaresco, Rabaja
Castello di Verduno

Barbaresco, Rabaja


Destination

vintage


portfolio

Portfolio
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2016
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2017
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2017
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2018
75cl
DP
£53.21

2018
75cl
DP
£53.21

2018
75cl
DP
£53.21

2018
75cl
DP
£53.21

2018
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2018
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2019
6x75cl
DP
£337.22

En primeur

En Primeur
The following wines are either En Primeur or Ex-Chateau and currently abroad awaiting shipment to the UK. These wines are subject to final confirmation from the Justerini & Brooks team.


2020
6x75cl
EP
£265.00


Castello di Verduno, Barbaresco, Rabaja, 2016

2016

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Castello di Verduno, Barbaresco, Rabaja, 2016

Expressive yet subtle with some oregano and sage notes that complement typical Barbaresco seductive fruitiness - restraint but with energy and complex stony components; infused with a subtle saline feel, this offers a shimmering mouth-watering acidity and salty finish. A very different vineyard, and resulting wine, to Rabaja Bas. The soils are a similar limestone clay composition but this is an even steeper, well-drained vineyard that yields wonderfully complete wines of great ageing ability. Kept on the skins for 60 days after ferment and reared in large oak casks for 21 months.

ABV:
14.5%
90/100
Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Macerated black cherry, cloves, leather, graphite and menthol give the 2016 Barbaresco Rabajà-Bas a decidedly somber, rustic quality that also comes through in the wine's feel. I would give the 2016 a few years in bottle to settle down, but I expect it will always be a tannic, four-square powerhouse. This is an especially virile style that speaks more to power than finesse.
Date Reviewed:
02/2020

specifications

country:
Italy

region:
Piedmont

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Castello di Verduno

Castello di Verduno

The Castello di Verduno is one of the historic castles of Barolo, originally built in 1500, and thanks to the Burlotto family it also seems set for a glittering future. Nebbiolo was first vinified here in 1838 under the new ownership of King Carlo Alberto of Savoy. In 1909 the castle was acquired by the Burlotto family. It was in the 1950s that the Commendatore Giovanni Battista Burlotto, returning from Eritrea, set about restoring the castle to its former glory. Today his daughters run the estate. The Castello’s ten hectares of vineyard spread across Barbaresco and Verduno, the northernmost Barolo commune where the proximity to the river results in warm days but cool nights. Their top wines come from two of the region’s most hallowed vineyards Verduno’s Monvigliero and Barbaresco’s Rabaja. Apart from making fabulous Nebbiolos, the Burlottos are also arch-exponents of the rare Pelaverga variety. This fascinating red grape can only be found in Verduno, where it has been co-planted since the 1600s. It was in danger of dying out, however, until Castello di Verduno took the brave step of being the first to dedicate single vineyard plantings to the variety, in 1972. Success soon followed for the alluring, fruity and peppery reds it produced culminating in 1995 with the award of its very own DOC, Verduno. Interestingly the Burlottos also make a tiny quantity of excellent white made from the same variety, a blanc de noirs, that offers crisp clear fruit and herbal flavours. The wine-making here is traditional; soft, slow fermentations with 25-40 days of maceration on the skins followed by ageing in large old Slavonian oak casks, 24 months for the cru wines and 3 years for the cru riservas. These are refined, spirited, vital Barolos and Barbarescos that have an elegance that makes them very eminently drinkable young, yet with the balance and nerve to allow for long ageing.

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