{"product_id":"cappellano-barolo-pie-franco-2017","title":"Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2017","description":"This is Barolo from vines that were never supposed to survive. Pie Franco comes from ungrafted, own-rooted Nebbiolo Michet that Teobaldo Cappellano planted in the late 1980s in the Gabutti cru of Serralunga d'Alba, the way vines grew before phylloxera made American rootstock all but universal. Teobaldo called the planting a \"backwards evolution,\" an effort to bring Barolo back to an idea of purity. It was also a tribute to his grandfather Giovanni, who spent his last years in Africa trying to work out whether grafting was really unavoidable. Plenty of people bet the bug would wipe out those rows quickly, but they're still there, intact and healthy. The family calls it an \"irregular,\" seductive Barolo of extraordinary complexity that carries the stamp of Serralunga. The motto they give the wine, borrowed from Yamamoto Tsunetomo, is \"The great deeds are not accomplished when sober.\" Augusto Cappellano, the fifth generation, farms organically and works the old way: native yeasts, very little sulfur, long fermentations, long aging in big old botti and no filtration. 2017 was a hot, record-dry year in Barolo, and spring frost cut yields, but the region's wines kept their warm-year ripeness from tipping into excess and held on to a surprising amount of freshness.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524990898233,"sku":"NYC-[CNSN]-TTSUMMER0826-092226-192-21","price":599.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Cappellano-Barolo-Pie-Franco-2017-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1790154775","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/cappellano-barolo-pie-franco-2017","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}