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Ferrando, Carema Etichetta Nera, 2008

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
by Ferrando
$129.99
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The Etichetta Nera (black label) is Ferrando's legendary top Carema, bottled only in the finest vintages from the family's best parcels, only about 3,000 bottles when it's made. Raised in smaller French oak, it's the richer, denser, more ageworthy of the two Caremas, famous for showing gorgeously at 20, 25, even 30 years. The 2008 was a classic, cooler vintage that gave structured, fragrant wines, exactly the profile that rewards the Nera's long aging curve. It's now mature but has plenty of life ahead.

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More about Ferrando

If you’ve always assumed that Ferrando Carema was the name of this estate, you’d be forgiven. To those of us who already love the wines, Luigi Ferrando and the tiny little mountain town of Carema are indeed one and the same.

The DOC Carema is home to the most northern, high-altitude Nebbiolo in Piedmont. Since 1957, the Ferrando family has made wine here on steeply terraced vineyards, trained on pergola vines to obtain maximum exposure to the sun.

It’d be a bit peculiar to include the contrasting terroirs of Carema and Barolo within the same regional boundaries, were it not for the poetic justice that all great expressions of this diva grape play on Team Piedmont.

Yes, the euphoric aromas of tar and roses that make even the most stoic Barolo lover swirl and shiver are embedded in the DNA. But as if without permission, like a swift pull of a tablecloth from under an undisturbed setting of a dining room table, Ferrando’s Carema breathes in an alpine vitality that lifts the Nebbiolo off its heavy feet.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    2008

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Braised beef, game, wild boar ragu, mushroom risotto, aged alpine cheese.

Tasting Profile

Deep, mature, classically structured alpine Nebbiolo: dried cherry, tar, leather and herbs with fine, resolving tannins. Savory and long. Drink now or hold.

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