Serafino Rivella, Barbaresco Montestefano, 2001 PZCalifornia This beautifully balanced effort is

This beautifully balanced effort is a Petits Monts of grace and class

This Aligote comes off a valley slope beside the Hautes Cotes village of Fussey at around 470 meters

hand-tended

Selected from casks that retained delicate flor yeast despite exceeding six years of aging

certified organic and worked by the I Vigneri guild that Salvo Foti revived

Serafino Rivella, Barbaresco Montestefano, 2001 PZCalifornia This beautifully balanced effort isTeobaldo Rivella walks out of his house into the garden and finds himself standing in Montestefano, one of the greatest sites for Nebbiolo anywhere. That is the whole story of this estate: about two hectares inside a single cru, planted by his father in 1963, and a family that has never seen a reason to complicate it. Rivella makes just two wines from it, the Barbaresco and a serious Dolcetto. Montestefano is the most powerful of Barbaresco's crus,