winetastic wrote:Vietti Castiglione 2009
Good intensity, lovely texture, shame about the vanilla oak ruining the party.
Castiglione can be a pretty worked style but I'm confident Vietti's Cru wines stand the test of times and site specific characteristics rise above the winemaker. They do need to be aged.
A few years ago we were hosted to a long lunch with the family at the vineyard and the conversation weighed in heavily on minimal winemaker intervention as it would be incredibly arrogant to stamp your personality on vineyards that have been producing wines for a thousand years- one site, Lazzarito was documented to be of such a high quality vineyard of sun and low humidity, it became a panicked hospital area during an early black plague epidemic. Now, if you look at the technical sheets of Vietti's wines you may be puzzled by this but I do honestly feel, in good time, that the evidence was positive toward the more traditional Piedmontese -loving palates.
Vietti lunch- Behind the 2010's were the 2001's & 1990's I recall. Though oak structure in evidence, the general characteristics of the wine were varietal and site specific. The vineyard snap is "Scarrone", near 100 year old Barbera vines planted in a traditional Barolo site as the great-grandfather saw money in barbera which was correct, right up until the post-war industrialization of northern Italy when barbera plantings proliferated.
Next up was Voerzio. After a long lunch, sweat it out in the great vineyards of La Morra whilst running through the great modernist expressions of Voerzio.
