Elio Altare – Barolo Riserva Cerretta Vigna Bricco – 2013

At the turn of the 1980s and early 1990s, a group of young producers from the Langhe began a real revolution, proposing a new way of producing Barolo, thus a series of wines were born that were totally detached from the traditional model: impeccable from the point of technical point of view, based on a pushed research of fruit concentration, on the smoothness of tannins, on short macerations and on a consistent contribution of oak from small barrels. Elio Altare, founder producer of this movement, after an enlightening trip for him, returned to Italy and cut all the old large barrels in the cellar with the chainsaw to insert the new French barriques, he was thus disinherited by his father! Charismatic, courageous, enterprising man guided by his great passion for wine and love for the land he began the search for excellence, which he expresses through his elegant and balanced wines. The wines are simple and natural, biodynamics or other similar philosophies are not applied, the vine is simply cultivated based on the experience acquired and handed down for tens of generations. Bricco Cerretta, name that identifies the top part of the MGA Ceretta and in particular the best exposed part, we are in the municipality of Serralunga d’Alba here on soils rich in limestone and older plants Elio Altare produces a very representative Barolo. A solid, vigorous wine with a very long aging potential, a bottle to buy and forget in the cellar for a few years.
The 2013, despite the difficult climatic trend, the nebbiolo was able to take great advantages from the end of the season with high temperatures, giving us wines that are perfect for aging and with an excellent structure. In fact Elio Altare comes out with a Barolo Riserva just to show us the great potential of this vintage.

Productive Notes: maceration on the skins in a rotofermenter at a controlled temperature for 4/5 days, aging in French barriques (30% new) for 24 months