2022 Platinetti Colline Novaresi Nebbiolo

95 Points, Lisa Cardelli (The Wine Pilot) – “Cranberries, macerated roses, and morello cherries—this is an ethereal and sanguine wine at the same time. Orange rind, powdery, coating tannins, a palate that is compact and precise, a hint of alcohol at the back, but overall, it is well balanced. This nebbiolo is elevated in a mix of stainless steel and Slavonian oak. There is a finesse and length that persist and keeps on giving. It is made from declassified Ghemme fruit from old vines. Platinetti Guido indeed makes excellent wines at every level.”

94 Points, Gary Walsh (The Wine Front) – “Cherry, new leather, mint and aniseed, dried orange, dried flowers and spice. It’s medium-bodied, a cool feeling wine, but has a certain apricity with those warming spices and bright raspberry/cherry flavours. Tannin has grip and feels dusty and quite chalky, and the finish is long with a cinch of amaro bitterness to close. Classic Ghemme, with perhaps a little more substance than is usual.”

100% declassified Ghemme nebbiolo fruit from the 45 to 55 year old vines on the glacial soils of Ronco al Maso cru in Ghemme (Alto Piemonte). 

A super release from Andrea - cherry & all the ferrous & balsamic notes of other releases.  Lacy fine tannins with an amaro like finish of alpine herbs.  Delicious now but very ageworthy.