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Fratelli Seghesio, Barolo La Villa, 2008

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
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The youngest and tightest of the three Seghesio La Villa vintages here: 2008 was a long, cool season that gave thick skins, high extract and serious acidity, so this bottle still has plenty of road ahead of it. La Villa is a selection of the oldest vines on the family's four hectares in Castelletto, the Monforte d'Alba cru where their farmhouse stands, at roughly 350 meters, southeast-facing on clay with tuffaceous sand. Monforte's tannins run silkier than Serralunga's, and the house recipe — ten to fifteen days macerating in rotary fermenters, a year in French barriques, then a year or more in 50-hectoliter casks — has had eighteen years to settle into the fruit. From a private cellar. Stand it upright for a day, decant it a good two hours ahead, and take your time: it drinks well now and should keep improving for another decade.

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Antonio Galloni

94 points

"The 2008 Barolo Vigneto La Villa emerges from the glass with generous dark red fruit, flowers, menthol, pine and licorice, all supported by firm, massive tannins. French oak gives the wine volume and textural depth, but without being intrusive. A plush, authoritative finish rounds out this stylish, totally fabulous Barolo." —Antonio Galloni

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More about Fratelli Seghesio

Not the Sonoma Seghesios: this is a small family estate in Monforte d'Alba, where three generations have turned a sharecropper's farm into one of Barolo's dependable old-vine addresses.

Ettore Seghesio, a tenant farmer, bought the property in 1964 as sharecropping came to an end in the Langhe and planted it to Nebbiolo. His sons Aldo and Riccardo began bottling under the Fratelli Seghesio label in the late 1980s; since Aldo's death in 2010, Riccardo has run the estate with Aldo's children Sandro, Marco and Michela. The family farmhouse sits in Castelletto, and the estate farms 12 hectares of vines, a Monforte cru on steep, southeast-facing slopes of clay and tuffaceous soil at around 350 meters. Fermentations are spontaneous.

The flagship is Barolo La Villa, from 4 hectares of Nebbiolo in Castelletto that include the estate's oldest vines. It macerates for 10 to 15 days in temperature-controlled rotary fermenters, then spends a year in French barriques and another 12 to 18 months in 50-hectoliter casks. That gives Monforte's power a polished edge in youth, and with time in bottle the wines settle into classic Barolo truffle, tar and dried flowers. The range also includes Barbera d'Alba, Dolcetto d'Alba and Langhe Nebbiolo.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    2008

  • Size

    750ml

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Grilled porterhouse, brasato, agnolotti del plin in butter, or a mushroom and Fontina tart.

Tasting Profile

Cherry and dried rose with tar, mint and tobacco over a savory earthiness from age. Full-bodied, with firm, fine-grained tannins, high acidity and a long, mineral finish.

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