Here’s an offbeat example of decade-old nebbiolo. The 2008 growing season was challenging in Piedmont, with plenty of obstacles to ripening, resulting in a relatively late harvest. Yet this mature red tastes sweetly ripe, with a concentrated, sticky texture carrying evolved flavours of prune, damp forest and leather along with the nebbiolo grape’s classic cherry, shoe polish/tar and faded-rose notes. For those who like ’em old. Available in Ontario.
- Year: 2008
- Region: Piedmont
- Varietal: Nebbiolo
- Price: $42.95