Better Than Ever—But the Price Has Barely Budged
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2018 De Forville Barbaresco Piedmont Italy 750 ml
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One of the Last Great Deals in Traditional Nebbiolo
Traditionally made Barbaresco WAS one of the wine world’s greatest insider secrets. Now the market is bonkers. The prices for top wines have nearly DOUBLED over the last five years, with some reaching into triple digits.
Enter legendary De Forville proprietor Paolo Anfosso, who is making the best Nebbiolo of his career, yet has barely raised prices in a decade—the delightfully stubborn winemaker quips that he doesn’t want to run a marketing company.
That’s what makes Anfosso’s Barbaresco one of the last great deals in the region, and why the New York Times, in a roundup of 2014 bottles, named De Forville’s “classic Barbaresco of the old school” the #1 overall wine—and the best value of the bunch! It’s a steal for a wine grown on top Barbaresco crus including Pozzo and Rabajà, the source for Produttori del Barbaresco’s $90+ Rabajà Riserva.
Lifted by aromas of nuanced cherry balsamic, rose petal, licorice, and petrichor, the wine is at once seductive and deeply traditional. It’s got the soft warmth of a cathedral stained-glass window, and it seems to slow down time, as the intoxicating bouquet and texture pull you into the glass.
A fifth-generation producer, De Forville has been making wine since the 1840s. Paolo’s modern reign has been defined by technical adjustments in the cellar and warmer vintages, which make for bolder, richer, more accessible wines that seem to get better and better every year.