- Micro Production (120 Cases Per Year)
- Fanatical Focus on Quality
- Organic Farming
- Perfect Soils for Ridiculously Perfumed Wines
- Some of the Most Aromatic Wines We Sell from Anywhere
2015 La Badina Lessona
- One of the Most Perfumed Wines I've Ever Had from Italy
- 95 Points Antonio Galloni for the 2013
- I Rated the 2015 Ahead of the 2015
- An Aromatic Explosion
- Intense Dried Roses, Fresh Roses
- Palate: Incredible Intense
- Gorgeous Cherry Flower and Cherry Fruit
- Savory, A Hint of Salinity
- Acidic Balance and Structure to Age for Decades
- Remarkable Flavor Integration and Balance
"The 2013 Nebbiolo Lessona is powerful and deep in the glass, with superb depth and more approachability than many wines offer in this vintage. There is perhaps a hint of new oak today, but time in bottle should help that note dissipate. This is an especially succulent, inviting 2013." 95 Points, Antonio Galloni (2013 Vintage)
La Badina has burst on to the scene in Piedmont with scores that are normally only given to the elite winemakers in the Langhe.
As always, this is a good thing and a bad thing as inventories tend to deplete quickly with good scores. There is not much left of the older vintages at the estate.
I am offering the 2015 Lessona today. This wine is entering its drinking window and I badly want you all to have it. It is a wine of pure ephemeral beauty - it's more like drinking 30 year old Barolo. The 2013 was more Barbaresco - this is stunningly well made Barolo. It has the density of the King of Wines.
La Badina
La Badina is a remarkable new producer who is doing things very traditionally and very carefully. The 
entire estate is absolutely teeny (1.5 hectares) and they are making a tiny amount of wine with an intense focus on quality. Winemaking is organic (almost certified) and traditional. The high pH of the soil makes the wines incredibly perfumed. These wines are remarkable. As good as very, very good Langhe wines ($60-$100). A remarkable level of terroir and vintage transparency. Truly unique expressions of Nebbiolo. This is pedal to the medal cool climate Nebbiolo as one can get.
entire estate is absolutely teeny (1.5 hectares) and they are making a tiny amount of wine with an intense focus on quality. Winemaking is organic (almost certified) and traditional. The high pH of the soil makes the wines incredibly perfumed. These wines are remarkable. As good as very, very good Langhe wines ($60-$100). A remarkable level of terroir and vintage transparency. Truly unique expressions of Nebbiolo. This is pedal to the medal cool climate Nebbiolo as one can get.
The Wines
I'm thrilled to offer the 2015 La Badina Lessona for $37.99 a bottle on a 4 pack purchase.This is the most gorgeously elegant yet dense of the La Badina wines we've sold. I ranked it ahead of the 2013 that got 95 points - it's more dense and powerful but retains the elegance and balance that is the house style..
The nose on this wine is pure Nebbiolo magic. It starts off just sweet and beautiful and then evolves into the intense dried rose and fresh rose melange that is simply incredible. Gorgeous nose. Chestnut, flowers, tar, very, very aromatic. Awesome spice flower and forest right after a rainfall on the nose. A hint of like this dried dusty cherry flower melange (in a good way). Just swirling and complex. Keeps changing and adding layers and nuance. In 5 years this will be a knockout. It's a knockout now but in ten years its' Foreman over Holyfield with one punch.
The palate is dense dark cherry fruit and so, so juicy. Terrific acidic balance that just screams Fassy juiciness. Just absolutely gorgeous like a classic old school pre global warming Barolo. The fruit is more dark cherry than the 2013. Really great juiciness that balances the power of the fruit. This wine is so clean, so pure, so juicy and so complex yet super old school. As it opens up you get a wonderful savory quality. A kiss of salinity rounds it out. The acidity is so so wonderful. After an hour, this becomes a total freak show on the palate. Not the fruit, but the internal aromatics. It's almost a sensory perfume overload - one of those wines that is so intense that your brain almost has to overclock to comprehend what's happening. The level of flavor integration is incredible. THere's som much material but nothing sticks out. You rally have to focus to taste everything. This wine needs an hour decant to get going. It was amazing even then. It has the balance and tannic structure to age for 20+ years and it should evolve into something even more gorgeous than it is today as it evolves and opens up. For this price, or even 2 times this price, you can't find wines with this level of aromatics anywhere.
2015 La Badina Lessona - $39.99 ($151.96 4-pack)
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