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Antoniolo, Gattinara Riserva 'San Francesco', 2020

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
by Antoniolo
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Single vineyard Gattinara from one of the region's true reference producers. 60+ year old vines. This is a wine that will develop nicely for years, but it's already a delicious treat, oozing with iodine, cherry, and baking spices. The wines from this region keep getting better and better, and this is world class Nebbiolo.

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Antonio Galloni

95 points

"The 2020 Gattinara Riserva San Francesco is a potent, tightly wound wine, despite its mid-weight personality. Crushed flowers, slate, mint, chalk and dried herbs soar from the glass. Salivating acids and beams of insistent supporting tannin lend energy throughout. The 2020 is a gem, but readers will have to be patient." —Antonio Galloni

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More about Antoniolo

If you want to understand how good northern Piedmont Nebbiolo can be, Antoniolo is the place to start. This is the Gattinara estate that pioneered bottling the zone's best vineyards separately: in 1974 the family released single-vineyard wines from Osso San Grato and San Francesco, a revolutionary step for Gattinara.

Mario Antoniolo founded the estate in 1948. His daughter Rosanna drove the move to single-vineyard bottlings, and today her children Alberto and Lorella run the property, about 14 hectares of vines in the Sesia valley in the Alpine foothills, far north of Barolo. The soils here are nothing like the Langhe's marl: volcanic porphyry mixed with glacial moraine, which gives Nebbiolo (known locally as Spanna) a fine-boned, perfumed, high-acid style. The vineyards are farmed along organic lines, with low doses of copper and sulfur and no systemic treatments, and the wines ferment slowly in concrete with native yeasts before long aging.

The range runs from the young-vine Coste della Sesia “Juvenia,” an easy entry point, to the Gattinara Riserva and the single-vineyard crus Osso San Grato, San Francesco and Castelle. The crus are built for the long haul, and mature bottles are some of the most rewarding old Nebbiolo you can find.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    2020

  • Size

    750ml

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

What Skurnik Wines has to say about this wine:

100% Nebbiolo from the estate’s single vineyard ‘San Francesco’ cru at 390 meters above sea level

3.5 hectares of 60-year-old vines in volcanic soil

Spontaneous fermentation with maceration lasts 18 days

Fermentation in cement

Aged 18 months in mostly used tonneaux, then 18 months in 25-35 hectoliter Slavonian and French oak casks

Aged one year in bottle prior to release

300 cases produced annually

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Beef short ribs, braised beef, wild mushroom risotto, aged Parmigiano

Tasting Profile

Nebbiolo Riserva from northern Italy. Tar, rose, dark cherry. Full body, structured tannins, excellent aging potential, complex.

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