Two Exceptional Vintages, Declassified Barbaresco for $34.99 Plus a Psychotic Serralunga Barolo

2013 Rattalino Barolo Novantuno91 del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba 
- 2013 "similar in quality to the already legendary 2010s."
 - Terrific Aromatic Intensity: Crazy Cherry Flowers, Spice
 - Just Perfect: The Most Perfect Juicy Cherry Fruits, Intense Spice, Cherry Liquor That Melange Together
 - Incredibly Long Lip Staining Finish
 - Only 80 Cases Made

2015 Rattalino Langhe Nebbiolo 
 - An "Exceptional Vintage"
 - This Is the Same Exact Wine As the Barbaresco 42
 - Ebullient Nose: Chocolate, Spices, Cherry and Flowers
 - Palate: Deep, Sappy, Cherry Fuit, Spice, Chocolate
 - Thanks to Italy's Bizarre Regulations, We Can Sell It for $34.99
 - A Chance to Get Great Barbaresco at a Low Price - Stock Up

2015 Vintage
"An exceptional vintage thanks to healthy grapes and exceptionally regular bunches. A very cold

winter with plenty of snow and a protracted cool and rainy spring replenished the water tables, much needed during a July that was the hottest ever on record. The vintage shows great promise, even if some grapes were relatively low in acidity."
Jancis Robinson

2013 Vintage
"From mid July temperatures shot up and remained high during August, albeit with cooler nights. September was very sunny and dry, but the growing cycle was still two weeks late, necessitating a delayed harvest. The prognosis is for a vintage similar in quality to the already legendary 2010s.
Jancis Robinson 94 Points (Wine Advocate)"

I was turned on to Rattalino by one of the top US-based writers about Italian wine, Tom Hyland, who is a fan.  There's a very good reason he liked the wines.  For me, their style is similar to that of some of my favorite Burgundy and Rhone producers.  The wines are incredibly clean and linear.  Really well made.  Their higher end wines (like today's 91) exhibit remarkable density.  I'm not talking about big dumb overripe fruit but the clarity and dense power of perfectly balanced fruit.  And despite that power, the wines are elegant.  The fruit does not overwhelm the secondary and tertiary flavors.  Indeed, there is this miraculous intertwining.  You can sit and really geek out on these wines.  His top wines are at a quality level of the Baroli that cost $100+.  I'm selling them for a fraction of that because they are not yet famous and I buy direct. 

The 2013 Rattalino Barolo DOCG Novantuno91 del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba for $59.99 a bottle on a bottle per 3-pack is an utterly psychotic wine in the most brilliant way. More "A Beautiful Mind" than "Nightmare on Elm Street",  it combines the sheer beauty of Nebbiolo in Barolo with the power and finesse that is the Rattalino style with their higher end wines which are in a league of their own.  This wine combines that elegance and finesse with raw power as well as any wine I've had. Iron fist in a velvet glove. Is it any wonder there are so many metaphors and idioms about Barolo? It's the wine of a thousand metaphors. The nose is a combination of various spices, and intense cherries and superb flowers. Imagine walking in a field of cherry trees in the height of their flowering season in Japan and that's what you have if they were interwoven with insanely intense spice that keeps growing and adding nuance as it aerates and this wine needs air.  The palate takes it up a level.   Just the most perfect, perfect incredibly juicy cherries with ridiculously intense spice, and cherry liquor. Incredibly juicy and explosive. The finish is incredibly long with cherry liquor and spice staining the lips and back palate. An absolute perfect bottle of Barolo from an incredible vintage. This is drinking beautifully now and has the structure to age for 10+ more years.


The 2015 Rattalino Langhe Nebbiolo for $34.99 a bottle on a bottle per 4-pack is a one time deal.  The vintage produced an ebulliance of stunning fruit and the Italian government limits the amount you can sell per hectare, so this is called Langhe Nebbiolo.  The Italian Government's folly is our gain.  This actually is the wine that they sell as Barbaresco (same grapes, vinified the same, everything is the same).  This is very good Barbaresco from an excellent vintage. The nose is classic Barbaresco combined with the rich density of 2015.  An intense whirlwind of chocolate, spices, cherry and flowers. Utterly ridiculous and ebullient with high toned aromas that jump out of the glass. The palate is crazy, crazy deep and sappy cherry fruit. Incredibly ripe and intense with cherry juice, cherry flower internal aromas and massive spice and chocolate all interwoven like a chocolate covered cherry made from single vineyard bean to bar chocolate. Terrific finish and structure with great freshness due to the typical brilliant Rattalino acidity. This is a chance to get great Barbaresco at a low price - stock up.

2013 Rattalino Barolo Novantuno91 del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba - $61.99 ($179.97 3-pack) (LIMITED)

2015 Rattalino Langhe Nebbiolo (Declassified Barbaresco) - $36.99 ($139.96 4-pack) (LIMITED)