2012 Barbaresco Vie Erte

Wine Details
Place of Origin

Italy

Neive

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Nebbiolo

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2018 - 2032

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This is another super-impressive set of wines from Cigliuti. Over the last few years, the wines have been particularly strong. That is very much the case here. The 2013 Nebbiolos were brought in between October 5 and 15, which is pretty much inline for the vintage. I also had a chance to revisit the 2012s. Those wines are a bit closed today, which is not typical for the year, but likely a very good sign for the future. It would be great to see Cigliuti gain a little more visibility. The wines have been deserving of that for some time.

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Cigliuti's 2012 Barbarescos are among the most successful wines of the vintage. For reasons I don't fully understand, this small, family-run estate in the Bricco di Neive district just outside of Neive proper remains very much under the radar. In the 1970s, Renato Cigliuti crafted striking, traditional Barbarescos. His 1978, which I last tasted a few years ago, was drop-dead gorgeous and still full of life. But like many small, artisan growers in the 1980s, Cigliuti couldn't sell his wines, so he gradually adopted more modern techniques in order to please the market. Cigliuti was, above all else, a man who has dedicated his life to the vineyards, which is where readers visiting the estate will find him today. Daughters Claudia and Silvia Cigliuti make the Barbarescos in a more classically-leaning style than was the case in the 1990s. The Barbarescos are once again fabulous, and, perhaps more importantly, distinctive. If there is an estate in Barbaresco that deserves more attention, it is without question Cigliuti. At the same time, I feel the full potential of the estate has yet to be unleashed. The 2012s were bottled in the weeks leading up to my recent visit, yet they were super-impressive.