Cascina Adelaide Barolo Cannubi 2017

Cascina Adelaide, one of our all-time favorite Barolo producers, makes complex, approachable, world-class wines, and WE have the inside line. We absolutely scored on this 96 POINT single Cru Barolo – that just so happens to be the revered CANNUBI!

In 1999, owner Amabile Droco purchased an old farmhouse in the heart of Barolo village, made a considerable investment in new production equipment, and added a new state-of-the-art gravity-fed winery building to the property, tucked just beneath the hilltop Castello di Barolo. They now own top sites in eight out of the ten Barolo “Crus”, and continue to be an ever-higher-achieving star on the rise. The Cannubi hill is sacred ground, of course, and Cascina’s incredibly fine, lifted, perfumey, and polished wine will last for decades. Luckily, in the warm and generous 2017 vintage, this wine also shows enough softness to drink early...as we have done for the past two days here at the office.

We are one of the very few in the U.S. to have UNPRECEDENTED access to their top wines, and we purchase every bottle they agree to sell us. Truly, this pricing is remarkable, and the wine...even more so! 96 POINTS and just a surreal treat of top-notch Barolo!

The wine is a classic, old-school style of nebbiolo. The nose zings with violets, iris, and rose petal notes, with hints of cherries and plums rounding out the aromas. The expansive, silky palate is loaded with crushed raspberries, orange peel, deep cherries, and cranberries, plus anise seed, balsam, mineral ash, and a long, endless finish. Absolutely solid – as we’ve come to expect from the fine folks at Cascina Adelaide. Decant for thirty minutes for early drinking, or simply take your time with the wine and watch it blossom over the course of an evening. Just wicked, awesome stuff.

All of Cascina Adelaide’s grapes are hand harvested and sorted before a 12-hour stay in the winery’s drying room to remove any residual moisture on the grapes. From there, the fruit is destemmed and lightly crushed in preparation for their roughly two-week fermentation and maceration in tank. Following primary, the wine is aged for 24 months in oak barrels, where secondary fermentation occurs. The wine is then bottled for 3 years of further aging before release.

As we noted above, we simply love it! This winery continues to just BLOW UP in the press, and we are beyond stoked to have gotten in early! Read the press below, but don’t delay, this is a CRAZY good price. 37% OFF?!?! Just JUMP all over this...go!