BARBARESCO
2020 Serraboella Cigliuti
| Grapes | Nebbiolo |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | Italy, Piedmont |
| Village | Barbaresco |
| ABV | 15% |
| Vineyard | Serraboella |
Neive. Lustrous mid ruby. Beautiful, perfumed, complex fruit with real depth. Suave, cool yet concentrated red fruit with lots of polished tannins. Very long, concentrated and tactile. Drinking range: 2024 - 2034 Rating: 17++ Walter Speller, www.jancisrobinson.com (Aug 2024)
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The Cigliuti family were the first to put Serraboella on the label, in 1967. 65-year-old vines, limestone soils. 26 months in botte and tonneaux. More red in the colour here than in the Vie Erte 2020 – more vibrant colour. Fabulous, open aroma of tangy red fruit – pretty, floral and yet intense. Thick but refined tannins. Many layers of finesse, great freshness and purity as well as incipient complexity. It is the tannins as much as the acidity that make this mouth-watering. Drinking range: 2025 - 2035 Rating: 17.5 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Jul 2024)
The 2020 Barbaresco Serraboella is another stellar wine in this range from Cigliuti. It offers a stunning mix of succulent dark fruit, rose petal, lavender, mocha and spice. The 2020 spent 26 months in oak, 70% cask and 30% tonneaux, the smaller barrels adding soft contours. Just bottled, the 2020 shows tons of potential. Blood orange, crushed red berry fruit, mint, spice, rose petal and a kick of sweet French oak linger. Drinking range: 2025 - 2040 Rating: 96 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Oct 2023)
Cigliuti
Sisters Claudia and Silvia Cigliuti took over the running of this vineyard from their father Renato. He was the first member of the family to begin bottling his own wine, back in 1964, roughly the same time as other pioneers in the region like Giacosa, but the family can trace its roots on this land back to the late eighteenth century.
Most of the vineyard and the winery is on the Serraboella hill, looking over Neive from the east, and it is the Barbaresco Serraboella which is the flagship wine of the estate. This hill, composed of calcareous marl and tufa soils, gives classic wines which combine the textural finesse of clay and the length and longevity of wines from limestone. The vineyards are tended by the family, by hand, with low yields to ensure full ripeness every year.
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