Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune del Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2020 pear brandy and velvety

and velvety

100% organic Chardonnay from a single vineyard site near Viré in the Mâcon of southern Burgundy

which heralded more investment into both the brand and the distillery

This wash is twice distilled and aged in new American oak with a heavy char

Chateau Renard is a phenomenal example of Jura Chardonnay

Fratelli Alessandria 'Commune del Verduno' Barolo DOCG, 2020 pear brandy and velvetyThis is the cellar stuffer. If you're going to lay some Barolo into the gas tank to have on hand and crush with a nice steak, or at the end of a long week, this is IT. Indeed, in recent memory at a tasting with Shop friends clients and winemaker Vittore Alessandria, while we had open some truly fabulous wines stretching back into the '90s, the showstopper of the evening, for me and others, was a 2006 bottling of this wine, Alessandria's more minor