My Favorite Wine: January 17, 2018

My Favorite Wine… this week anyway 2014 De Forville Barbaresco Regular price: $37.99 Sale Price: $29.99 Barbaresco is a wine, made in a tiny place in Piedmont, in the northwest of Italy. Barbaresco must be 100% Nebbiolo. Spiritually, (Really? I just wrote ‘spiritually’ about a grape), Nebbiolo is closest to Pinot Noir (not Aglianico which[…]

The Anti-Cab

Nebbiolo is the grape that grows in Piedmont, in Northwest Italy, and in Barolo and Barbaresco, arguably, better than any other place on earth. Nebbiolo is difficult to ripen, its finicky about rain and wind, and  its susceptible to vine diseases. It also does not adapt particularly well to differing vineyard soil types, preferring soils[…]