Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) SO071725 Mellot It’s this multi-vintage layering that

It’s this multi-vintage layering that gives the wine its signature depth: baked apple

harvested in multiple selective passes

and pushed by long lees aging into territory that recalls top white Burgundy as much as anything from Styria

elegant complexity

The result is Priorat with its volume turned down — perfumed

Burlotto, Barolo Monvigliero, 2009 (3L) SO071725 Mellot It’s this multi-vintage layering thatA double magnum (3L) of Burlotto's foot trodden flagship the wine that, more than any other, made Verduno's Monvigliero cru famous worldwide. Fabio Alessandria, in the cellar since the early 2000s, treats this cru with techniques that vanished from the Langhe by the 1980s: whole cluster foot treading in open vats, indigenous yeasts, and a roughly 60 day skin maceration before long aging in large wood. The 2009 vintage was warm and generous, and in