Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune del Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2021 (1.5L) CDR An exceptional offering from Duckhorn

An exceptional offering from Duckhorn Vineyards

dating back to 1309 when the first pontifical vineyard was planted by Clement V

Benoit Courault is not the son of a winemaker

or spicy chicken

and is quite the sensory experience

Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune del Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2021 (1.5L) CDR An exceptional offering from DuckhornThis is the cellar stuffer. If you're going to lay some Barolo into the gas tank to have on hand and crush with a nice steak, or at the end of a long week, this is IT. Indeed, in recent memory at a tasting with Shop friends clients and winemaker Vittore Alessandria, while we had open some truly fabulous wines stretching back into the '90s, the showstopper of the evening, for me and others, was a 2006 bottling of this wine, Alessandria's more minor