Nebbiolo Wine Varieties

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Hi, I'm Mark Middlebrook and I'm here in the Paul Marcus Wines Cantina and in this segment I'm going to talk about other great Nebbiolo wines from Piemonte other than Barolo and Barbaresco. So Piemonte is in northwest Italy, the capital is Torino or Turin and Nebbiolo is grown pretty much throughout the region. I have a little map here, Torino is kind of in the center and Barolo and Barbaresco, the two most famous Nebbiolo regions are down here in southern Piemonte in an area collectively called the Langhe. Right across the river from Barolo and Barbaresco, north of the town of Alba is a region called, a zone called the Roero, R-O-E-R-O. It's kind of hard to say without rolling your Rs a little bit and that's how they do it there so I make an attempt. And it's become one of my favorite places to hang out and to drink wine. It's a fairly interesting area. It's fairly new to the, to the tradition of making really high quality wines that age for a long time. It's for many decades, it was a source mostly of bulk wines for the inhabitants of Turin, Torino, who would come down and fill up their big demijohns and take them back and drink that wine during the week. But now there's some producers such as Cascina Ca' Rossa who are making Nebbiolo wines that, in my opinion, are starting rival the quality and complexity of Barolo and Barbaresco. Now there are others besides this one, but this is one of my favorites. And Angelo Ferrio of this family-owned and run winery, makes two different vineyards, two different crux the French word for vineyard of Roero, 100% Nebbiolo. One this particular one is called Albinagio a particularly steep and scary looking vineyard near his winery. So Roero is, I think, is the, one of the great sources of Nebbiolo besides Roero and Averesco. And two others that are really worth paying attention to are a little harder to find sometimes, the wines are Ghenne and Gattinara, further north than Piemonte. Because they're further north, it's a little bit cooler area and Nebbiolo really struggles to ripen there, so you get wines that are a little leaner profile they don't have quite, maybe as much fruit density as Barolo or Barbaresco. But they have a really beautiful aromatic profile. They really show off those floral, those, that pretty side of Nebbiolo. In a cool vintage they sometimes wind up being a lean and harsh, but with global warming and all, that's not happening too much anymore. I don't have any bottles here, but if you're in a wine store or restaurant that has a really good selection of Piemonte wines, you might look for Ghenne and Gattinara as well Roero and try some of the less well known great expressions of Nebbiolo. Salute'.

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