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2016 Barbaresco Rabajà

Wine Details
Place of Origin

Italy

Barbaresco

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Nebbiolo

Vintages
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This is a very pretty set of wines from Cortese. The estate recently introduced a straight Barbaresco to complement the flagship wines from Rabajà. Cortese did a terrific job with their 2017s. Not surprisingly, there is no Riserva in 2017. I also found plenty to admire in the 2016 and 2013 Barbarescos I tasted, wines from more favorable years that deliver on the promise of those vintages. As always, the Barbarescos are aged in cask and are classically leaning in feel.

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I was deeply impressed with the wines I tasted at Cortese this year. Readers can look forward to several terrific versions of both the Barbaresco Rabajà and flagship Riserva Rabajà in the coming years. Two thousand fifteen and 2016 are both shaping up to be terrific at this address. In 2015, Cortese did not make a Riserva, but readers can look forward to both the straight Barbaresco Rabajà and Riserva in 2016 [you repeat what you just said in the previous sentence], a year that is looking very, very good here. As always, the Cortese Barbarescos are very much classically inspired and built.