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| Wijnsoort | Rood |
|---|---|
| Land | Italië |
| Regio | |
| Appellatie | |
| Wijnhuis | |
| Jaar | 2015 |
| Druif | |
| Inhoud (Alc) | 1.5 ltr (14.5%) |
| Drink venster | 2026 - 2060 |
Lage voorraad
Nog maar 1 over
De "Monfortino" wordt alleen gemaakt in de beste jaargangen en is een selectie van de beste druiven uit de wijngaard. Na de oogst wordt dit deel ook apart gevinifieerd en minimaal 7 jaar op grote Sloveens eiken vaten bewaard.
De 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino is magisch. Dit is de eerste jaargang waarin druiven van Arione zijn opgenomen, waardoor de blend bestaat uit 80% Francia en 20% Arione. Hiermee keert Monfortino terug naar zijn oorsprong als een multi-wijngaardwijn, wat het grotendeels was tot 1978, toen de eerste Monfortino uitsluitend van Francia werd geproduceerd. De Barolo Riserva Monfortino 2015 is inmiddels veilig gehuisvest in een fles na bijna 6 jaar in vaten en fles te hebben mogen rijpen.
Warme aroma's van pruimen, rozenblaadjes en kruiden met hints van sandelhout. Een beetje teer. Volle body, dicht centraal gehemelte met glorieus fruit en een fantastische afdronk. Zeer, zeer gepolijste en fijne tannines. Een geweldige Monfortino en hier gaan we verder geen woorden aan vuil maken. De Montfortino is de Chateau Petrus uit Piemonte. Extreem goed, schaars en met een haast onbeperkte levensuur. De 2015 heeft 98+/100 punten gekregen van Parker.
Dit is ook nog een zeer schaarse magnum van 1.5 liter in OWC/1 - Nog lekkerder en met een nog langer drinkvenster.
WEETJE: De wijn ligt in ons geconditioneerde Wine Warehouse en als u de wijn komt afhalen ontvangt u vaak ook nog een mooie korting. U ziet uw korting direct wanneer u kiest voor ‘Afhalen’ op de afrekenpagina. We zitten in Dordrecht gelegen bijna naast de A16 met volop parkeergelegenheid. Klik hier voor ons adres.
| Wijnsoort | Rood |
|---|---|
| Land | Italië |
| Regio | Piemonte |
| Appellatie | Barolo |
| Wijnhuis | Giacomo Conterno |
| Druif | Nebbiolo |
| Biologisch gecertificeerd | Nee |
| Natural wijn | Nee |
| Vegan | Nee |
| Jaar | 2015 |
| Drinken vanaf | 2026 |
| Drinken tot | 2060 |
| Alcohol % | 14.5 |
| Alcoholvrij/arm | Nee |
| Inhoud | 1.5 ltr |
| Houtrijping | Ja |
| Bubbels | Nee |
| Dessert wijn | Nee |
| Afsluiting | Kurk |
| Parker rating | 99 |
| James Suckling rating | 99 |
| Vinous rating | 99 |
| Smaakprofiel | Aards, Boers, Complex, Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Mineraal, Rood fruit, Tannines |
| Drink momenten | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe |
Rating
98+
Release Price
$1000
Drink Date
2026 - 2055
Reviewed by
Monica Larner
Issue Date
30th Nov 2021
Source
End of November 2021, The Wine Advocate
Monfortino was not produced in 2016 nor was it made in 2017. The jury is out on whether will see it in 2018 (but I do know that Roberto Conterno is super excited about the 2019 vintage in Barolo, speaking generally). That means that we might not see his flagship wine for a number of years. The 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino gives us plenty to contemplate in the meantime. First, in terms of winemaking notes, this vintage see 22% Arione fruit in the blend, with the rest from Francia. Roberto Conterno is fond of telling me that "Francia is a Barolo you drink, and Monfortino is a wine you chew." (The exact word in Italian is "masticare.") I think his comment rings especially true in this vintage that arguably shows greater concentration and fruit weight and softer or more integrated tannins overall. There is structure but minus any hard edges or bite.
Harvest was completed by mid-October, and this was a very easy and trouble-free growing season that ended with ample warmth and sunny temperatures. In fact, Roberto Conterno prefers 2015 over 2016. The wine's beautiful richness most definitely translates to the bouquet, which is expressive, buoyant and full of dark fruit character. Blackberry and blackcurrant cede to spice, smoky tar, aniseed and potting soil (after a shorter five years in oak).
We know Roberto Conterno of the Giacomo Conterno estate as one of Italy’s most talented Barolisti, a taciturn genius in the vineyard and cellar who is capable of casting out the inner soul from the Nebbiolo grape and trapping it for near-eternal safekeeping in a glass bottle. But the Roberto Conterno I met this summer had reinvented himself during the doldrums of lockdown, moving toward increasingly varied pursuits. Thanks to this total transformation, his many new identities today also make him an architect, a restaurateur, a stemware designer and the inventor of a futuristic army of robots on tank treads that will be dispatched at random throughout the Italian countryside and beyond. (Sorry folks, on this last point, I have been sworn to absolute secrecy, but I promise to say more when I can).
As I discovered this past July, there is indeed a lot of news to report from Piedmont. I visited both of Roberto’s estates, his new winery in Gattinara (Alto Piemonte) and his historic cellars in Monforte d’Alba (Barolo), to taste the 23 wines reviewed in this report. What I thought would be a quick tour became instead an epic foray into Mondo Conterno.
I left Nice, France, in early morning and drove past the flooded rice patties of Arborio to the beautiful town of Gattinara, which sits south of the Italian Alps and the Lake District west of the Sesia River. Roberto came to greet me and told me that just 24 hours earlier the area had suffered from a terrible summer hailstorm. He was still assessing damage to his Nebbiolo vines planted a short distance north of the winery on the nearby hillsides.
Roberto purchased the historic Nervi winery in 2018. (For more info on this acquisition, you can read my May 2018 article called "Italy, Piedmont: The Nebbiolo Whisperer – Roberto Conterno Buys Gattinara’s Nervi.") By buying the estate, with its 27 hectares of vines and a winery in the city center of Gattinara (with roots spanning back to the early 1900s), Roberto sent the ultimate vote of confidence in Nebbiolo-based wines made in the often-overlooked appellation of Gattinara.
The man credited with making some of Barolo’s greatest wines, and arguably its most collectable icon wine, Monfortino, had unexpectedly set up shop in Gattinara. It was a move driven purely by instinct and passion.
His first step was to design and construct a new, state-of-the-art winery. No expense was spared, and Roberto reproduced the breakthrough technology we can admire today at his home-base winery in Monforte d’Alba in Barolo. In addition to the modern fermentation area and aging cellars, some of the older cement tanks and facilities left over from the original Nervi winery were refurbished and kept in place.
Understanding that wine might not be enough to draw visitors to this undiscovered corner of Piedmont, Roberto converted the front offices of the old Nervi winery into a restaurant called Cucine Nervi. It serves regional dishes with a contemporary twist. A smooth wooden counter made with imported kauri wood from New Zealand surrounds an open kitchen where you can watch the talented chef Alberto Quadrio and his team at work. The restaurant wine list of course offers an enviable collection of Conterno Neri and Giacomo Conterno recent releases and back vintages.
Roberto had prepared a beautiful tasting for me in the glass-enclosed visitors’ room with views of the barrel fermentation area below. From the Conterno Nervi portfolio, I tasted the 2018, 2017 and 2016 vintages of his Gattinara, plus the 2018 and 2016 vintages of his two single-vineyard wines, Molsino and Valferana. These wines were not made in 2017, and fruit from these sites went into the classic Gattinara instead. I also tasted the Nebbiolo-based rosé as well as the rosé metodo classico sparkling wine.
“Gattinara beats Barolo three to one in the 2018 vintage,” he tells me. “Nebbiolo is crazy sensitive to place, and the 2018 vintage gave beautiful tannic structure here, making for complete wines.”
Following his presentation from Conterno Nervi, Roberto poured wines from his Barolo brand, Giacomo Conterno. I had previewed many of these wines over the past years during my annual barrel tastings, but this was my first opportunity to taste the finished products. The lineup included the 2019 Barbera Vigna Cerretta and the 2019 and 2018 vintages of Barbera d’Alba Vigna Francia.
In terms of Barolo, we sampled the 2017 and 2016 vintages of Barolo Cerretta, Barolo Arione and Barolo Francia. To conclude, he poured the 2014 and the 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino. Monfortino was not made in 2016 or 2017, and he hadn’t yet decided if he will make the wine in 2018.
“Barolo beats Gattinara in 2019; and in 2020, the two regions are about the same,” he says. “I love 2019 in Barolo. The season saw two full months of beautiful weather before harvest. The 2019 vintage made long-term wines with extra concentration and structure. The 2020 vintage has more obvious fruit and less structure compared to 2019.”
Roberto Conterno often takes conventional wisdom regarding a vintage and turns it on its head. He showed extreme confidence in the 2014 vintage, calling it “the vintage of the century”; meanwhile, it was largely panned by his peers because of summer rains and below average temperatures. That counterintuitive approach, which is part mischievous and part moxie, had him cheering for 2015 over the widely applauded 2016 vintage. Indeed, he had originally made one barrel of a possible 2016 Monfortino, but that wine ultimately went to his Barolo Francia instead.
The message delivered loud and clear this summer is that Roberto Conterno is especially excited about his 2019 Barolo wines now in barrel.
As a side gig, Roberto Conterno designs stemware. In 2017, he introduced his Sensory glass (which I use daily for all my professional tastings of reds and whites) with its extra wide balloon, soft tulip curve and short stem for better stability. This summer, I tasted sparkling wine from his newest glass, Symphony, introduced in 2021.
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99
Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
From: 2017 Barolo, Part 2: The Late Releases (Oct 2021)
The 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino is magical. This is the first vintage that includes fruit from Arione, so the 2015 is 80% Francia and 20% Arione. That marks a return to Monfortino as a multi-vineyard wine, which it mostly was until 1978, when the first Monfortino from Francia was made. The combination of sites works so well. I remember tasting the 2015 as separate components and seeing what exactly the Arione piece adds, and that is aromatic explosiveness, texture and breadth. Rose petal, mint, sage, tobacco and cedar lend complexity. More than anything else, though, I am blown away by how utterly delicious the 2015 is. Of course, the 2015 will be better in time, but its pedigree is plainly evident today. Roberto Conterno gave the 2015 just five years in cask, the shortest time in wood for any Monfortino in recent memory, maybe ever. Like most producers around the world, Conterno is thinking deeply about what the optimal period of time in oak is. As for the 2015, it is a flat-out stunner in every way.
- By Antonio Galloni on October 2021
Roberto Conterno showed me a wide range of wines during my most recent visit. Conterno shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it is quite the opposite; the pace of innovation has never been faster. Work on an expansion to the Monforte cellar is slated to begin shortly. At Nervi, the renovated winery melds tradition with innovation to a degree that is breathtaking. As if that were not enough, Nervi now boasts a world-class restaurant, with a wine list to boot. In terms of the wines, the 2017 Barolos are unbelievably elegant and refined. They are also incredibly expressive of site. The 2015 Monfortino, the first to include fruit from Arione, is even better from bottle than it was from barrel. I also tasted the 2018 Gattinaras from Nervi. They are exceptional. A little bird told you.
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Giacomo Conterno is een iconische Italiaanse wijnproducent gevestigd in de wijnstreek Barolo in Piemonte, Italië. Het wijnhuis staat bekend om zijn traditionele wijnbereidingspraktijken en toewijding aan het produceren van Barolo's van hoge kwaliteit.
De wijnmakerij werd in 1908 opgericht door Giacomo Conterno in de stad Monforte d'Alba, gelegen in het hart van de wijnstreek Barolo in Piemonte, Italië. In de beginjaren concentreerde de wijnmakerij zich op het maken van wijnen van Nebbiolo, de belangrijkste druivensoort die wordt gebruikt bij de productie van Barolo. Na het overlijden van Giacomo Conterno in 1930 nam zijn zoon Giovanni Conterno het landgoed over. Giovanni zette de familietraditie voort om Barolo's van hoge kwaliteit te produceren. Een belangrijke mijlpaal voor de wijnmakerij was de overname van de Cascina Francia wijngaard in de jaren zeventig. Deze wijngaard, gelegen in de gemeente Serralunga d'Alba, werd een belangrijke bron voor enkele van de meest prestigieuze wijnen van Giacomo Conterno. In de jaren tachtig vond er een scheiding plaats binnen de familie Conterno, wat leidde tot de oprichting van twee afzonderlijke wijnhuizen, Giacomo Conterno en Aldo Conterno. Aldo, de broer van Giovanni, richtte vervolgens zijn eigen succesvolle wijnmakerij op.
Giacomo Conterno zette, onder leiding van Giovanni's zoon Roberto Conterno, de focus van de familie op traditionele wijnbereidingsmethoden voort.
Giacomo Conterno wordt vaak geassocieerd met de traditionele stijl van Barolo productie. Traditionele Barolo wordt gekenmerkt door langere maceratieperioden en rijping in grote Slavonische eikenhouten vaten. Deze praktijken dragen bij aan wijnen met complexe smaken, stevige tannines en een uitstekend rijpingspotentieel. Ook heeft het te maken met de specifieke wijngaardes van het wijnhuis. De wijnmakerij is gelegen in de gemeente Monforte d'Alba, een van de belangrijkste gebieden binnen de Barolo. De specifieke wijngaarden van Giacomo Conterno omvatten enkele van de beste crus (individuele wijngaarden) in de regio, waaronder de beroemde Cascina Francia-wijngaard. De toewijding van het landgoed aan specifieke wijngaarden benadrukt het belang van het terroir bij de productie van hun wijnen. Ook de Cascina Francia-wijngaard is bijzonder belangrijk voor Giacomo Conterno. De wijnen die uit deze wijngaard worden geproduceerd, zijn zeer gewild vanwege hun diepte, structuur en rijpingspotentieel. Cascina Francia is een belangrijke bron geweest voor enkele van de meest prestigieuze Barolo-wijnen van het landgoed.
Giacomo Conterno staat bekend om zijn minimalistische en traditionele wijnbereidingsaanpak. De wijnmakerij maakt doorgaans gebruik van lange maceratieperioden, rijping in grote Slavonische eikenhouten vaten gedurende een langere periode en minimale interventie om de wijnen de kenmerken van het terroir te laten uitdrukken. De wijnen van Giacomo Conterno staan hoog aangeschreven onder verzamelaars en liefhebbers vanwege hun complexiteit en het vermogen om de unieke kenmerken van de regio te laten zien. Het landgoed heeft een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij het vormgeven van de reputatie van Barolo als een van de beste wijnregio's van Italië.
De "Monfortino" wordt alleen gemaakt in de beste jaargangen en is een selectie van de beste druiven uit de wijngaard. Na de oogst wordt dit deel ook apart gevinifieerd en minimaal 7 jaar op grote Sloveens eiken vaten bewaard.
De 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino is magisch. Dit is de eerste jaargang waarin druiven van Arione zijn opgenomen, waardoor de blend bestaat uit 80% Francia en 20% Arione. Hiermee keert Monfortino terug naar zijn oorsprong als een multi-wijngaardwijn, wat het grotendeels was tot 1978, toen de eerste Monfortino uitsluitend van Francia werd geproduceerd. De Barolo Riserva Monfortino 2015 is inmiddels veilig gehuisvest in een fles na bijna 6 jaar in vaten en fles te hebben mogen rijpen.
Warme aroma's van pruimen, rozenblaadjes en kruiden met hints van sandelhout. Een beetje teer. Volle body, dicht centraal gehemelte met glorieus fruit en een fantastische afdronk. Zeer, zeer gepolijste en fijne tannines. Een geweldige Monfortino en hier gaan we verder geen woorden aan vuil maken. De Montfortino is de Chateau Petrus uit Piemonte. Extreem goed, schaars en met een haast onbeperkte levensuur. De 2015 heeft 98+/100 punten gekregen van Parker.
Dit is ook nog een zeer schaarse magnum van 1.5 liter in OWC/1 - Nog lekkerder en met een nog langer drinkvenster.
WEETJE: De wijn ligt in ons geconditioneerde Wine Warehouse en als u de wijn komt afhalen ontvangt u vaak ook nog een mooie korting. U ziet uw korting direct wanneer u kiest voor ‘Afhalen’ op de afrekenpagina. We zitten in Dordrecht gelegen bijna naast de A16 met volop parkeergelegenheid. Klik hier voor ons adres.
| Wijnsoort | Rood |
|---|---|
| Land | Italië |
| Regio | Piemonte |
| Appellatie | Barolo |
| Wijnhuis | Giacomo Conterno |
| Druif | Nebbiolo |
| Biologisch gecertificeerd | Nee |
| Natural wijn | Nee |
| Vegan | Nee |
| Jaar | 2015 |
| Drinken vanaf | 2026 |
| Drinken tot | 2060 |
| Alcohol % | 14.5 |
| Alcoholvrij/arm | Nee |
| Inhoud | 1.5 ltr |
| Houtrijping | Ja |
| Bubbels | Nee |
| Dessert wijn | Nee |
| Afsluiting | Kurk |
| Parker rating | 99 |
| James Suckling rating | 99 |
| Vinous rating | 99 |
| Smaakprofiel | Aards, Boers, Complex, Droog, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Mineraal, Rood fruit, Tannines |
| Drink momenten | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe |
Rating
98+
Release Price
$1000
Drink Date
2026 - 2055
Reviewed by
Monica Larner
Issue Date
30th Nov 2021
Source
End of November 2021, The Wine Advocate
Monfortino was not produced in 2016 nor was it made in 2017. The jury is out on whether will see it in 2018 (but I do know that Roberto Conterno is super excited about the 2019 vintage in Barolo, speaking generally). That means that we might not see his flagship wine for a number of years. The 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino gives us plenty to contemplate in the meantime. First, in terms of winemaking notes, this vintage see 22% Arione fruit in the blend, with the rest from Francia. Roberto Conterno is fond of telling me that "Francia is a Barolo you drink, and Monfortino is a wine you chew." (The exact word in Italian is "masticare.") I think his comment rings especially true in this vintage that arguably shows greater concentration and fruit weight and softer or more integrated tannins overall. There is structure but minus any hard edges or bite.
Harvest was completed by mid-October, and this was a very easy and trouble-free growing season that ended with ample warmth and sunny temperatures. In fact, Roberto Conterno prefers 2015 over 2016. The wine's beautiful richness most definitely translates to the bouquet, which is expressive, buoyant and full of dark fruit character. Blackberry and blackcurrant cede to spice, smoky tar, aniseed and potting soil (after a shorter five years in oak).
We know Roberto Conterno of the Giacomo Conterno estate as one of Italy’s most talented Barolisti, a taciturn genius in the vineyard and cellar who is capable of casting out the inner soul from the Nebbiolo grape and trapping it for near-eternal safekeeping in a glass bottle. But the Roberto Conterno I met this summer had reinvented himself during the doldrums of lockdown, moving toward increasingly varied pursuits. Thanks to this total transformation, his many new identities today also make him an architect, a restaurateur, a stemware designer and the inventor of a futuristic army of robots on tank treads that will be dispatched at random throughout the Italian countryside and beyond. (Sorry folks, on this last point, I have been sworn to absolute secrecy, but I promise to say more when I can).
As I discovered this past July, there is indeed a lot of news to report from Piedmont. I visited both of Roberto’s estates, his new winery in Gattinara (Alto Piemonte) and his historic cellars in Monforte d’Alba (Barolo), to taste the 23 wines reviewed in this report. What I thought would be a quick tour became instead an epic foray into Mondo Conterno.
I left Nice, France, in early morning and drove past the flooded rice patties of Arborio to the beautiful town of Gattinara, which sits south of the Italian Alps and the Lake District west of the Sesia River. Roberto came to greet me and told me that just 24 hours earlier the area had suffered from a terrible summer hailstorm. He was still assessing damage to his Nebbiolo vines planted a short distance north of the winery on the nearby hillsides.
Roberto purchased the historic Nervi winery in 2018. (For more info on this acquisition, you can read my May 2018 article called "Italy, Piedmont: The Nebbiolo Whisperer – Roberto Conterno Buys Gattinara’s Nervi.") By buying the estate, with its 27 hectares of vines and a winery in the city center of Gattinara (with roots spanning back to the early 1900s), Roberto sent the ultimate vote of confidence in Nebbiolo-based wines made in the often-overlooked appellation of Gattinara.
The man credited with making some of Barolo’s greatest wines, and arguably its most collectable icon wine, Monfortino, had unexpectedly set up shop in Gattinara. It was a move driven purely by instinct and passion.
His first step was to design and construct a new, state-of-the-art winery. No expense was spared, and Roberto reproduced the breakthrough technology we can admire today at his home-base winery in Monforte d’Alba in Barolo. In addition to the modern fermentation area and aging cellars, some of the older cement tanks and facilities left over from the original Nervi winery were refurbished and kept in place.
Understanding that wine might not be enough to draw visitors to this undiscovered corner of Piedmont, Roberto converted the front offices of the old Nervi winery into a restaurant called Cucine Nervi. It serves regional dishes with a contemporary twist. A smooth wooden counter made with imported kauri wood from New Zealand surrounds an open kitchen where you can watch the talented chef Alberto Quadrio and his team at work. The restaurant wine list of course offers an enviable collection of Conterno Neri and Giacomo Conterno recent releases and back vintages.
Roberto had prepared a beautiful tasting for me in the glass-enclosed visitors’ room with views of the barrel fermentation area below. From the Conterno Nervi portfolio, I tasted the 2018, 2017 and 2016 vintages of his Gattinara, plus the 2018 and 2016 vintages of his two single-vineyard wines, Molsino and Valferana. These wines were not made in 2017, and fruit from these sites went into the classic Gattinara instead. I also tasted the Nebbiolo-based rosé as well as the rosé metodo classico sparkling wine.
“Gattinara beats Barolo three to one in the 2018 vintage,” he tells me. “Nebbiolo is crazy sensitive to place, and the 2018 vintage gave beautiful tannic structure here, making for complete wines.”
Following his presentation from Conterno Nervi, Roberto poured wines from his Barolo brand, Giacomo Conterno. I had previewed many of these wines over the past years during my annual barrel tastings, but this was my first opportunity to taste the finished products. The lineup included the 2019 Barbera Vigna Cerretta and the 2019 and 2018 vintages of Barbera d’Alba Vigna Francia.
In terms of Barolo, we sampled the 2017 and 2016 vintages of Barolo Cerretta, Barolo Arione and Barolo Francia. To conclude, he poured the 2014 and the 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino. Monfortino was not made in 2016 or 2017, and he hadn’t yet decided if he will make the wine in 2018.
“Barolo beats Gattinara in 2019; and in 2020, the two regions are about the same,” he says. “I love 2019 in Barolo. The season saw two full months of beautiful weather before harvest. The 2019 vintage made long-term wines with extra concentration and structure. The 2020 vintage has more obvious fruit and less structure compared to 2019.”
Roberto Conterno often takes conventional wisdom regarding a vintage and turns it on its head. He showed extreme confidence in the 2014 vintage, calling it “the vintage of the century”; meanwhile, it was largely panned by his peers because of summer rains and below average temperatures. That counterintuitive approach, which is part mischievous and part moxie, had him cheering for 2015 over the widely applauded 2016 vintage. Indeed, he had originally made one barrel of a possible 2016 Monfortino, but that wine ultimately went to his Barolo Francia instead.
The message delivered loud and clear this summer is that Roberto Conterno is especially excited about his 2019 Barolo wines now in barrel.
As a side gig, Roberto Conterno designs stemware. In 2017, he introduced his Sensory glass (which I use daily for all my professional tastings of reds and whites) with its extra wide balloon, soft tulip curve and short stem for better stability. This summer, I tasted sparkling wine from his newest glass, Symphony, introduced in 2021.
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99
Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
From: 2017 Barolo, Part 2: The Late Releases (Oct 2021)
The 2015 Barolo Riserva Monfortino is magical. This is the first vintage that includes fruit from Arione, so the 2015 is 80% Francia and 20% Arione. That marks a return to Monfortino as a multi-vineyard wine, which it mostly was until 1978, when the first Monfortino from Francia was made. The combination of sites works so well. I remember tasting the 2015 as separate components and seeing what exactly the Arione piece adds, and that is aromatic explosiveness, texture and breadth. Rose petal, mint, sage, tobacco and cedar lend complexity. More than anything else, though, I am blown away by how utterly delicious the 2015 is. Of course, the 2015 will be better in time, but its pedigree is plainly evident today. Roberto Conterno gave the 2015 just five years in cask, the shortest time in wood for any Monfortino in recent memory, maybe ever. Like most producers around the world, Conterno is thinking deeply about what the optimal period of time in oak is. As for the 2015, it is a flat-out stunner in every way.
- By Antonio Galloni on October 2021
Roberto Conterno showed me a wide range of wines during my most recent visit. Conterno shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it is quite the opposite; the pace of innovation has never been faster. Work on an expansion to the Monforte cellar is slated to begin shortly. At Nervi, the renovated winery melds tradition with innovation to a degree that is breathtaking. As if that were not enough, Nervi now boasts a world-class restaurant, with a wine list to boot. In terms of the wines, the 2017 Barolos are unbelievably elegant and refined. They are also incredibly expressive of site. The 2015 Monfortino, the first to include fruit from Arione, is even better from bottle than it was from barrel. I also tasted the 2018 Gattinaras from Nervi. They are exceptional. A little bird told you.
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Giacomo Conterno is een iconische Italiaanse wijnproducent gevestigd in de wijnstreek Barolo in Piemonte, Italië. Het wijnhuis staat bekend om zijn traditionele wijnbereidingspraktijken en toewijding aan het produceren van Barolo's van hoge kwaliteit.
De wijnmakerij werd in 1908 opgericht door Giacomo Conterno in de stad Monforte d'Alba, gelegen in het hart van de wijnstreek Barolo in Piemonte, Italië. In de beginjaren concentreerde de wijnmakerij zich op het maken van wijnen van Nebbiolo, de belangrijkste druivensoort die wordt gebruikt bij de productie van Barolo. Na het overlijden van Giacomo Conterno in 1930 nam zijn zoon Giovanni Conterno het landgoed over. Giovanni zette de familietraditie voort om Barolo's van hoge kwaliteit te produceren. Een belangrijke mijlpaal voor de wijnmakerij was de overname van de Cascina Francia wijngaard in de jaren zeventig. Deze wijngaard, gelegen in de gemeente Serralunga d'Alba, werd een belangrijke bron voor enkele van de meest prestigieuze wijnen van Giacomo Conterno. In de jaren tachtig vond er een scheiding plaats binnen de familie Conterno, wat leidde tot de oprichting van twee afzonderlijke wijnhuizen, Giacomo Conterno en Aldo Conterno. Aldo, de broer van Giovanni, richtte vervolgens zijn eigen succesvolle wijnmakerij op.
Giacomo Conterno zette, onder leiding van Giovanni's zoon Roberto Conterno, de focus van de familie op traditionele wijnbereidingsmethoden voort.
Giacomo Conterno wordt vaak geassocieerd met de traditionele stijl van Barolo productie. Traditionele Barolo wordt gekenmerkt door langere maceratieperioden en rijping in grote Slavonische eikenhouten vaten. Deze praktijken dragen bij aan wijnen met complexe smaken, stevige tannines en een uitstekend rijpingspotentieel. Ook heeft het te maken met de specifieke wijngaardes van het wijnhuis. De wijnmakerij is gelegen in de gemeente Monforte d'Alba, een van de belangrijkste gebieden binnen de Barolo. De specifieke wijngaarden van Giacomo Conterno omvatten enkele van de beste crus (individuele wijngaarden) in de regio, waaronder de beroemde Cascina Francia-wijngaard. De toewijding van het landgoed aan specifieke wijngaarden benadrukt het belang van het terroir bij de productie van hun wijnen. Ook de Cascina Francia-wijngaard is bijzonder belangrijk voor Giacomo Conterno. De wijnen die uit deze wijngaard worden geproduceerd, zijn zeer gewild vanwege hun diepte, structuur en rijpingspotentieel. Cascina Francia is een belangrijke bron geweest voor enkele van de meest prestigieuze Barolo-wijnen van het landgoed.
Giacomo Conterno staat bekend om zijn minimalistische en traditionele wijnbereidingsaanpak. De wijnmakerij maakt doorgaans gebruik van lange maceratieperioden, rijping in grote Slavonische eikenhouten vaten gedurende een langere periode en minimale interventie om de wijnen de kenmerken van het terroir te laten uitdrukken. De wijnen van Giacomo Conterno staan hoog aangeschreven onder verzamelaars en liefhebbers vanwege hun complexiteit en het vermogen om de unieke kenmerken van de regio te laten zien. Het landgoed heeft een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij het vormgeven van de reputatie van Barolo als een van de beste wijnregio's van Italië.
