La Ca` Nova Barbaresco Montestefano 2017

96s and 94s galore for this wonderful, still-under-the-radar producer! Our hands tremble to write this...available at an eye-popping $39.95. Probably one of the greatest values in Piedmont -- Barbaresco is the center of the universe for Nebbiolo lovers right now (especially savvy ones…). We are beyond thrilled to have a small parcel -- whatever you do, don’t miss!! I am a huge personal fan of these wines, and drink them on the regular (currently the 2011 and 2014 regular) non single-vineyard bottlings are massive over-deliverers and utterly delicious, complex, ripe and silky. Anyway -- ‘17s are of extremely high-quality and deliver the goods big time. Read the reviews below, but know this from a legendary cru, with all the stuffing to age out for decades but enough balance to drink in the near term. La Ca' Nova is run by the Rocca family who began making classic traditional wines in the 70s, and before that their grapes were sold to none other than Angelo Gaja. They use neutral, untoasted large 30 hectoliter casks of Austrian oak to age the wines, and they sing of unfiltered purity, strength and finesse. People, PLEASE! Get these wines!! OK, now we’ll let the pros tell it. While they last!!