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2013 Barbaresco Rabajà

Wine Details
Place of Origin

Italy

Barbaresco

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Nebbiolo

Vintages
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Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Cortese remains one of the benchmark producers in Barbaresco. Quite understandably, Pier Carlo Cortese did not bottle his flagship Barbaresco Riserva Rabajà in 2014, although there will be 2013 and 2011 editions, both of which I was able to taste. All of the wines I tasted, including some that won't be released for some time, suggest that Cortese may be moving towards a style that emphasizes a bit more elegance than in the past, but some of that may be attributable to the personality of recent vintages. Time will tell. As always, the Barbarescos are aged exclusively in cask.

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Cortese's 2013 and 2012 Barbaresco Rabajà are textbook examples of their respective vintages. The 2013 is vibrant, precise and finely sculpted, while the 2012 shows the more medium-bodied personality that is typical of a vintage where rain just before harvest bloated the grapes and yielded distinctly mid-weight, open-knit wines with less intensity, vineyard definition and overall structure than is commonly found here. In other words, the 2012 will drink well pretty much right out of the gate, while the 2013 is a wine for the cellar.