Prunotto, Barbaresco Riserva, 1980 BRUNELLODI040225 raspberries

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Chateau Sainte-Marie is a Dupuch family estate in Entre-Deux-Mers — the broad swath of land between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers that has long been Bordeaux's white-wine heartland — and a longtime benchmark for crisp

aged in traditional botte barrels and bottled without filtration—typically four to four-and-a-half years after harvest

so you get Clare's dark-fruited depth with real lift underneath

His 2021 Barolo DOCG hails from Nebbiolo vineyards on calcareous clay soils in Verduno and La Morra

Prunotto, Barbaresco Riserva, 1980 BRUNELLODI040225 raspberriesA 46 year old Barbaresco Riserva from Beppe Colla's prime years at Prunotto. Before the 1989 1994 Antinori sale, Beppe Colla guided Prunotto from the 1950s through the 1980s to become one of Piedmont's most respected addresses a single vineyard pioneer, deeply traditional in cellar, devoted (as he put it) to wines tasting first of fruit and soil and never of technology. 1980 was an excellent, harmoniously balanced Piedmont vintage, and a Riserva from