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Colored a garnet red, this Barolo has a very intense nose, fine and fruity, with aromas of cherries, dried roses, and a pleasant, smoky note. Austere, warm, and dry on the palate, its mouth-feel is quite soft, tannic, and fresh, with an intense finish.

This wine is intense and opulent, vibrant with fruit and the vanilla-cedar aromas that oak confers. It displays all the trademarks of this splendid vineyard area: fragrance and length, soft supple tannins and a full-bodied generosity dressed in flawless austerity. A profound experience.

Brothers Aldo and Riccardo Seghesio began bottling their wine from their ten-hectares in the La Villa cru in 1988; the cru, in the Castelletto subzone not far from Manzone’s Gramolere, is another one of the most precipitous, best-drained expositions in all of Barolo – a ride of switchbacks up from the town of Monforte.

The Barbaresco “Fausoni,” from 40-year old vines, is the most floral of Sottimano’s offerings with aromas of cassis, currant and mint, and a firm core of vibrant acidity. Fausoni is a very small, south west-facing vineyard in Neive. It is so small in fact, that Sottimano is the only house making a Fausoni at this time.