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From: 2020 Barolo: Selective Excellence (Jan 2024)
Alessandria's 2020 Barolo Capalot is a wonderfully elegant, poised wine. It offers up hints of macerated cherry, spice, orange peel, cinnamon, dried flowers and earth. Deep and layered, yet also nicely finessed, the 2020 is super-impressive in this tasting. It's the finest wine I have tasted to date from Alessandria and a wonderful harbinger for the future. But, then I tasted the Monvigliero. To be released in 2025. 2025 - 2040
- By Antonio Galloni on November 2023
Alberto Alessandria is one of the most promising emerging growers in Piedmont today. The 2020s spent about 30 days on the skins, with natural fermentations and spontaneous malolactic fermentations. Aging was done in large format oak, mostly Garbellotto 30HL casks, although the new Monvigliero Barolo was aged in 20HL Stockinger cask. Speaking of the Monvigliero, it is quite possibly the finest Barolo I have tasted here. Readers who admire classically built Barolos will find so much to admire.
