Luciano Sandrone Barolo Aleste 3L DOUBLE MAGNUM 2018

Luciano Sandrone Barolo Aleste in double magnum is the estate’s single-cru Barolo, made entirely from Cannubi Boschis and renamed from that vineyard.

Aleste is the wine formerly labelled Cannubi Boschis, and it remains entirely from that cru: a subzone near the northern end of the Cannubi hill, directly opposite the Sandrone cellars in the commune of Barolo. Luciano Sandrone was the first grower to put the name on a label, in 1985, and the wine was one of the pioneering single-cru bottlings that alerted the wider world to the variation within Barolo’s terroirs. The estate farms three plots here, 1.9 hectares in total, with south and south-easterly exposures, calcareous clay soils carrying some sand, and vines averaging around thirty-seven years. Alessandro Masnaghetti notes that Cannubi Boschis wines carry good body, marked elegance and more polished tannins than the rest of the hill. Winemaking follows Le Vigne closely — a high proportion of whole berries with some whole bunches, wild-yeast fermentation, slightly longer on skins, then eighteen months in mostly used 500-litre French oak casks, twenty per cent new, and bottling without filtration.

The three-litre format ages very slowly and is made for a long cellar and a full table; serve at 16–18°C with braised beef, wild mushroom risotto or aged Parmigiano.

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