One of the Top Young Winemakers in Piedmont: He Turned Voerzio Around - Their Single Vineyard Wines Are All $300+

 In the Top Langhe FB Wine Group, This Producer Is the Talk of the Town
 - Changed Voerzio to Start Making Classic Wines
 - His Voerzio Single Vineyards Are $300+  
 - Started His Own Micro Estate on the Side
 - "One of La Morra's Most Gifted Artisans" (Wine Advocate)
 - Top, Top, Top Tier in the Langhe 
 - The Next Langhe Superstar in the States
 - Already Worshipped in Italy
 - Sells Out with 0 Marketing

The Style
 - Fruit Is So Compact
 - So Juicy
 - Never, Ever Overdone
 - These Are Premium Wines

2017 Cesare Bussolo Barolo del Comune di La Morra
 - A Super Premium Bottle of Barolo
 - Nose: Incredibly Pretty
 - So Elegant and Airy
 - Unreal Vivid Cherries
 - Tar, Flowers
 - Awesome Roses.
 - Maybe the most Burgundian Barolo I've Ever Had
 - Palate: Round and so Juicy
 - An Intense Fruit Squeeze
 - Like Old School Elite Volnay
 - Spectacular Length

  - So Complex

I just recently bought the Air Pods Max. They are Apple's entry into the wireless high end audio world. And of course Apple went above and beyond my ex

pectations. The price was steep of course but one can charge what one wants for a premium product if that product is proven to deliver over and over. Also the product must present as premium extremely high quality and be the best in whatever category it is. This is what Apple has done with these majestic

headphones. They are pictured to the right. The sound is so wide, so spacious and the bass hits so perfect. Not too much and not too little. Just perfect. Vocals are incredible and it has spatial audio support which is faux surround sound. Trust me this is unreal tech. The feel and look is so sleek and so comfortable. Aluminum, magnetic ear cushions that come on and off so effortlessly it's just brilliant brilliant engineering and design. I could go on but you get the point. Today's winery is the Apple of the Langhe. iBarolo if you will. 

 

Cesare Bussolo makes premium wines. He came onto the scene very recently and we were so lucky to get him. He arrived at Roberto Voerzio in 2008 and just changed the entire way wine was made there. It's not the old, oaky extracted wines of the past. They are pure, clean, focused wines with freshness and purity that is incomparable. His style is incomparable to anyone else in the Langhe and it runs all through his wines. They are premium wines. The labels are all unique and immediately rise to the level of the best labels in the Langhe. Maybe in all of Italy. Cesare is confident and knows it and he prices his wines this way to make a statement about what this estate is going to be. Think of how Lalou Bize Leroy left DRC and then opened her own estate and charged more than DRC and got higher scores! That's confidence! That is Cesare Bussolo. It's still early days but these wines can go down that DRC/Leroy path. 

First we sold his 2017 Barbera d'Alba Santa Lucia which is very popular and everyone loves it. It's easy to love. 

Then we sold the 2016 Barolo Fossati. Not sure if anyone has opened them yet, but if you do now is the time! The wine is sick. 

The Barbera was $36 and the Barolo was $160. As a young winery you kind of just release what you can while you build a more well rounded portfolio. 

The Wine

Cesare is now rounding out and today I have the honor of selling his first ever "Normale" Barolo, the 2017 Cesare Bussolo Barolo del Comune di La Morra for $114.99 a 3-pack. This is the debut vintage and just like the Air Pods Max this is a super premium bottle of Barolo that just over delivers. There will be very few 17s that can attain these heights from other addresses in Barolo. The wine just smells and tastes elite. Cesare has a signature like all the other elite producers. The fruit he gets is so compact, so juicy, but never ever overdone. The purity is just off the charts here. Some of the most glorious fruit I've ever tasted in Barolo. The texture is so soft yet so focused. Almost spherical. Another trademark of elite wines. The finished never ends and his wines never ever have hard edges. 

Very very pretty nose. So elegant and airy. Layered. Unreal vivid cherries. Like in 3D. So beautiful. Unreal tar, flowers and roses. But there is general flower aroma as well and then it veers into awesome roses. Smokey and just SO perfumed. A nose to die for and it's a stunner out of the gates. Just insane. This is what one wants. Aromas of gorgeous cherries and stunning sois bois. Maybe the most Burgundian Barolo I've ever had. Literally Nebbiolo in Côte d'Or. Unreal sweetness. Nose also has sick herbals. 

Palate is round and so juicy. Wow. What fruit. Such an intense fruit squeeze and just amazing tannins. They are so so so elegant and ripe. They just perfectly integrate with all the other components. What a wine. Not a hair out of place. So so well made. I think Cesare is the Italian Zeireisen or Brisset. He cannot miss. Best 2017 Barolo I've had and it's not close. So haunting. This is like old school elite Volnay. What texture. So airy and rich but so fresh! This is the stuff. The sweetness starting to come in. This is so bright and vibrant. Wow. Stunning balance and purity. This will only gain with air. It gains after 3-4 hours of air. More inner mouth aromas, more purity, more length and now the minerality had really has come out. Spectacular length. So complex now. Just brilliant. The wine has an energy combined with a serenity that just slays you.  You can and will drink this young but it will age for 15+ years. 

The mastery continues on day 2.  Palate is perfectly balanced and so pure. Bright and so much energy. Red fruited and so complex. Long and juicy. Gorgeous and delicate tannins. So pure. Just wonderful. If Apple made Barolo it would taste and be packaged like this. 

2017 Cesare Bussolo Barolo del Comune di La Morra - $114.99
($338.97 3-Pack)