Seghesio Barolo Castelletto Bordeaux completely saturating the palate with

completely saturating the palate with unsparing warmth and tenderness

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farming organically and treating Cabernet Franc less like a grape to tame and more like a grape to listen to

finishing with a cooling coastal snap

where there is 85% stones and gravel covered by limestone and some silt and sand that provide red fruit freshness and a delicate and elegant balance

Seghesio Barolo Castelletto Bordeaux completely saturating the palate withWhen sharecropping ended in Piedmont in 1965, Pap Riccardo Seghesio (no relation to the California Zin producer) had a chance to buy a small plot of vines right down from the little church in Monforte dAlba Barolo. For many years he and his sons tended these Nebbiolo vines, selling the fruit off to the local cooperative, as Pap would have done under the old system. When Pap retired, his sons Aldo and Riccardo Jr. started producing their own domaine