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Vietti, Barolo Rocche di Castiglione, 1989

Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy
by Vietti
$399.00
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Alfredo Currado's Rocche di Castiglione from one of Piedmont's truly great vintages, 36 years on. Vietti was the family estate that first championed Rocche as a single cru — Alfredo began bottling it in 1961 — and the 1989 was made during his prime decade, before his son Luca, after training in Bordeaux and California, began his winemaking career at Vietti in 1990. (Long before the 2016 Krause family acquisition.) Castiglione Falletto's sandstone-marl fruit was always perfumed and structured, and in a vintage like 1989 it produced wines built to last decades. At full maturity now, this is library Vietti at its purest: lifted, complex, fully resolved. A museum piece.

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Antonio Galloni

96 points

"The 1989 Barolo Rocche opens with an incredible bouquet that is reminiscent of a top-flight grand cru Burgundy. The wine shows exceptional elegance in the freshness of its color, the softness of the fruit, and a silkiness in the tannins that is only matched by Mauro Mascarello’s 1989 Barolo Monprivato, not coincidentally also from the village of Castiglione Falletto. I am amazed by the sheer purity and depth of the fruit, a quality of the wine that was extremely forward-looking twenty years ago. This layered, sublime Rocche represents the height of elegance and refinement in Barolo. It remains a spectacular effort from Alfredo Currado." —Antonio Galloni

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Nebbiolo

  • Vintage

    1989

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

The classic Piedmontese table: brasato al Barolo, tajarin with butter and truffle, agnolotti del plin, roasted game bird, aged Castelmagno. The wine deserves real cooking.

Tasting Profile

Peak maturity. Dried rose petal, tar, sweet tobacco, dried red cherry, forest mushroom, supple leather, faint balsamic. Castiglione Falletto perfume fully unfurled; tannins long resolved, finish endless.

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