Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) SO071725 Mellot Now entering its drinking window

Now entering its drinking window

Morten Hallgren brought European discipline to the Finger Lakes

elegant complexity

It’s this multi-vintage layering that gives the wine its signature depth: baked apple

Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) SO071725 Mellot Now entering its drinking windowA double magnum (3L) of Burlotto's foot trodden flagship the wine that, more than any other, made Verduno's Monvigliero cru famous worldwide. Fabio Alessandria, in the cellar since the early 2000s, treats this cru with techniques that vanished from the Langhe by the 1980s: whole cluster foot treading in open vats, indigenous yeasts, and a roughly 60 day skin maceration before long aging in large wood. The 2009 vintage was warm and generous, and in