Tenuta Carretta - Garassino Barbaresco 2021 (750ml) Rutherglen

Tenuta Carretta - Garassino Barbaresco 2021 (750ml) RutherglenGarassino is a winemaking area bounded by Treiso and noted for the personality and elegance of its wines. This Barbaresco proves it: complex, harmonic and persuasive. Aroma: intense of violet and withered rose with notes of vanilla and spice. Tenuta Carretta has made important investments both in the vineyards and in the winery and this Barbaresco testifies to rare personality and elegance, the constant in favor of quality research work.

An enticing mix of incense

fermentation

Great persistency

mint and stone

They deemed the terroir more than suitable for the continuation of their esteemed winemaking legacy

It's going to need 4-6 years of bottle age yet will drink well for 30 years or more

To some extent the 2022 vintage is the MOST Estate Old Vine Pinot Noir bottling ever as it literally spans the breadth of the site and includes what would essentially be “declassified” versions of those high-end

with polished tannins and a deliciously savory herb and smoke character

tangy acidity and soft and velvety tannins

dry summers and most rain falling in spring and autumn

5 acres) of which almost 80% are planted with "Grüner Veltliner

neatly framed by polished tannins