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Giovanni Manzone, Barolo San Stefano di Perno, 1999

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
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The most complete of Manzone's San Stefano di Perno bottles: 1999 married real structure to elegance, and at twenty-seven years the wine has gone fully tertiary without surrendering its acidity or its fruit. The cru is the Santo Stefano flank on the west side of the Perno hill in Monforte d'Alba, a hilltop whose slopes run off in every direction over Diano sandstone, ground that tends to give Barolo more roundness and forward fruit than the harder sites nearby. Manzone's method has not changed in generations, with thirty to forty-five days on the skins, gentle extraction, about thirty months in 500- to 700-liter Slavonian casks, no new French oak and no fining or filtration, and this is a bottling the estate no longer produces. If you want one wine to show what this site did in Manzone's hands, it is this one. From a private cellar; stand it upright, decant off the sediment, and drink it over the next five to eight years.

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Antonio Galloni

89 points

"Dark ruby. Manzone's Santo Stefano is very typical in its expression bodied frame with good length. There is a certain rusticity to the wines of Perno that takes some getting used to, but this is a highly attractive wine that should drink well to age 20." —Antonio Galloni

More about Giovanni Manzone

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    1999

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast duck with cherries, risotto with porcini, brasato, or a plate of prosciutto and aged Toma.

Tasting Profile

Dried rose and violet over sour cherry, tar, tobacco and damp earth. Medium-bodied and poised, with lively acidity and resolved but still-present tannin. Long, savory, faintly saline finish.

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