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Langhe Nebbiolo, Cavallotto 2018

Tasting Notes

The Cavallotto family treats their Langhe Nebbiolo in very much the same manner as their Baroli, with the wine given an extended maceration period of anywhere from eighteen to thirty-eight days and then aging in large, Slavonian oak Botti for fifteen to eighteen months prior to bottling. The 2018 version is an excellent wine in the making, delivering a deep and complex nose of sappy red and black cherries, oregano, gamebird, lovely soil tones (that will turn autumnal quite promptly), a touch of camphor, woodsmoke and a topnote of dried rose petals. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with broad shoulders, fine focus and grip, excellent complexity, superb soil undertow, chewy tannins and a long, youthful and tangy finish. This is really a “baby Barolo” in the best sense of the term and a great, great value! Unlike many Langhe Nebbiolo bottlings, the 2018 Cavallotto will demand plenty of bottle age before it starts to drink, but will also age long and gracefully. Fine juice. 2028-2055.

91+
John Gilman, View From the Cellar (94), August 2021
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