| WBOTD | Just the Good Stuff |
|---|---|
| Why add this wine to your Collection / Cellar? | Ultimate Cellar Section 94 point Barolo for under $50! Will age well for 20 years |
| Why now? | Exclusive first USA availability for a can’t miss addition to your Italian Wine selections! |
| WBOTD Cellaring Worthiness Rating | |
| Expert Ratings | 94WA |
| What is it? | Barolo Red Wine from Piedmont, Italy |
| What’s in it? | Nebbiolo | ABV 14% |
| When to drink? | Now to 2035+ |
| Pair with: | Red Meat, Mature & Hard Cheese |
| Serving Temp: | 60-65°F |
| Drink with: | Great friends, Italian Red Lovers |
| Occasion | A juicy thick steak dinner, Italian meals enhanced with a Big Red |
| If you want to drink now... | Decant 60 Minutes |
| Recommended purchase Qty: | 3+ includes free shipping - should get 6+ while you can! |
Diego Conterno Barolo 2014 | Exuberant & Deep | Will Cellar for 2 Decades!
Diego Conterno Barolo 2014 is perfumed, with an almost romantic nose of aniseed, nutmeg, flowers and red berries. While it has a big, ripe and densely textured palate with enticing fruit. Yet, there is impressive length with a spicy licorice finish.”-Decanter
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Deep garnet color, with a subtle bricking to the rim. Highly aromatic with aromas of kirsch liquor and mulberry leaping from the glass, underpinned by notes of currant leaf, rose petal, and linden. Most of all firm and focused on the palate, with densely packed grippy tannins and long, refined finish. Drink Diego Conterno Barolo 2014 now-2035.
Diego Conterno Wines
Over 30 years of experience making authentic, terroir-driven Barolos lead to the production of Diego’s outstanding Diego Conterno Barolo 2014. He began making wine in 1982 along with members of his family and established his own hillside winery in 2000. Since then Diego has maintained a small, family-run operation that prizes quality over everything, even price. Diego’s wines are of highly pedigreed and could certainly fetch higher asking prices than they do.
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In a landscape where price tags continue to climb, with average producers riding the coattails of the greats all the way to the bank, Diego Conterno is bucking the trend. Our advice? Take advantage before increased demand dries up the trickling supply of this superb boutique Barolo.
Conterno Family
Not all Barolo producers in the village of Monforte d’Alba share the surname of ‘Conterno’, but it’s quite likely! Yet, being born with the name Conterno in Barolo is like having the name Ferrari in Modena, a shorthand for class and high quality. Diego Conterno’s hillside winery overlooks the world-famous village of Monforte d’Alba, surrounded by vineyards. Finally, Diego and his wife Anna have 19 acres of vineyards in the village, including 5 in the Grand Cru of Ginestra.
This Conterno family is related to that of Conterno-Fantino through father Diego – but unrelated when it comes to wine style! In addition, their new winery is ironically located just up the slope from Giacomo Conterno, of no relation. So Diego, a graduate of the Umberto 1 Enological School, is well-grounded in making traditional Barolo, having worked under Beppe Colla at Prunotto. While in 2000 Diego decided to sell his share of Conterno-Fantino, take his vines including the plum Ginestra plot, & started afresh.
