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2008 Silvio Grasso Barolo Bricco Luciani 750 ml

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A Gift from La Morra

Consider this a gift from La Morra. In recent months, we have treated Barolo collectors to a number of single-vineyard wines from Silvio Grasso noted for their terrific red-fruit complexity and longevity. We gently pressed Grasso for even a small allocation of his top Barolos from “one of the GREAT vintages.” The magnificent 2008 Bricco Luciani is just that.

In the Wine Advocate vintage report entitled “Barolo 2008: The Incredible Lightness of Being,” Robert Parker’s publication provided a blow-by-blow reenactment of a growing season that won’t soon be forgotten in Piedmont.

Both the winter and spring of 2008 were very wet. April and May were chilly, pushing flowering back in La Morra by two weeks. As the rain continued to fall from the middle of May to June, the Grassos worried that capricious Nebbiolo would ripen unevenly, making for plenty of overtime at the sorting table come harvest.

While July signaled a shift to more typical weather, the rain returned in the beginning of August, making growers particularly nervous. But on the hillsides of Barolo, the latter part of the growing season — specifically, the weeks just before harvest — makes or breaks vintages, and such was the case in 2008.

At the tail end of August, the weather improved dramatically, ushering in a magnificent September, full of warm days and cool nights. Parker’s publication credited that large diurnal temperature shift for the marvelous “personality of the vintage.” October conditions mimicked September’s, allowing the Silvio Grasso and Marcarini — the class of La Morra — to let their Nebbiolo hang until the middle of the month. The harvest went off without a hitch, quickly erasing any memory of the worrisome summer months.

The 2008 Silvio Grasso Bricco Luciani is dark ruby in hue, showing little or any sign of its five years in bottle. Gorgeous aromatically, featuring plenty of crushed raspberry, sweet spice, pine needles, and new-wood cedar. The richest and most pliant of Grasso’s brilliant 2008s, filled with sweet red fruits, black cherry, tobacco, and licorice, finishing with age-worthy tannic backbone. Drink now (if you must) until 2026.

$75 on release. Just $44.99 today, direct from the cellar — a gift from Silvio Grasso in La Morra.