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- Color:
- Red
- Body/Type:
- Full Bodied
- Style:
- Traditional
- Size:
- Bottle, 750 ml
- Winery:
- Fratelli Brovia
- Grapes:
- Nebbiolo
- Serve At:
- 59°-64° F
- Region:
- Italy > Piedmont > Barolo
Fratelli Brovia's 2005 "Villero" is a classic example of the historic Castiglione Falletto vineyard. As staunch traditionalists, Fratelli Brovia eschew modern winemaking techniques (e.g. rotofermenters) that in recent years have become popular in many winemaking circles of the Piedmont. "Villero" is a warm vineyard site, and in a hot vintage like 2005 the resulting wine is powerfully built: full-bodied, well structured, ripely fruited, and long on the finish. This wine is approachable today with a long decant, and will age gracefully for at least the next 25 years.
Piedmont is the most "Frenchified" of all Italian wine regions. The long valleys of the Alpine foothills lead to easier travel to France's southern coast and inland than to the rest of Italy. It is perhaps for this reason that the Piedmontese have long practiced the most refined wine traditions of any Italian region. Terroir-based wisdom trickled down from early French masters (monks, typically) to this area.
Known mostly for their reds (but producing some excellent whites,) from the early ripening Dolcetto grape to the lofty, deep reds of Barolo and Barbaresco crafted from the Nebbiolo grape, these wines are clearly crafted using centuries of terroir-based winemaking.
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