2022 Giacomo Boveri Piccolo Derthona

A stunning release of this old favourite with a new label too. 

A whiff of spearmint on the nose.  Wet slate & talc texture give way to a long citrus driven finish.  Beautiful texture & mouthfeel especially for an unwooded white. Another really classic Piccolo from Boveri. Immense salinity this year.

94 Points, Gary Walsh (TWF) - Tip Top Tipple, "A new label design it seems. Unwooded Timorasso. There’s no doubt that Boveri are masters of this grape variety. Lemon oil, mint, fresh grilled white peach, quite salty to smell too. It’s all juicy citrus with so much energy and life, chalky texture, bright ‘mineral’ acidity, and while it’s tight and firm, it also has some richness of flavour. The finish offers gentle lemon peel bitterness and excellent length, and gee that grip as it closes really seals the deal. This seems a very good vintage for this wine, and in some respects, it offers the same sort of appeal that Chablis once did, if you get my drift. Complex, yes, but so refreshing. You could drink a bottle of this in no time flat."

94 Points, Tom Kline (The Wine Pilot) - "It's all about powdery green apple flesh and fresh cut lemon straight off, with the purity on display early. Delicate cinnamon spice and underripe white peach follow, before making way for the classic saline, briney notes and crushed rock mineral detail so consistent in these wines, even at Piccolo level. It's these notes that bring the morishness, the salty goodness! There's no shortage of flavour to the palate, which is much akin to the nose. It's so controlled and contained, however, trapped in a frame of briney acidity bringing it all into linear focus. Salted lemon, sea spray, green apple flesh and skin, white peach. Ample texture tussles with the acidity and bitter phenolics, with the latter two winning out and pulling long to a saline-drenched close."