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2018 Barbaresco Rabajà

Wine Details
Place of Origin

Italy

Barbaresco

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Nebbiolo

Vintages
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The 2018s and 2019s at Cortese are terrific. In the 2018s, readers will find Barbarescos that reflect the lighter style of the year. There will be no Riserva. Two-thousand nineteen, on the other hand, is a much stronger year. The wines are richer, deeper and more layered across the board, from the straight Barbaresco through to the very promising Riserva. As always, the wines are fermented in cement. Malos are spontaneous and usually take place in winter. Aging is in cask, typically 18 months for the Barbaresco, 22 for the Rabajà and 48 for the Riserva.

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This is a gorgeous set of wines from Giuseppe Cortese. Gabriele Occhetti describes 2018 as a year without weather shocks and harvest that wrapped up during the first half of October. I tasted three wines. The straight Barbaresco is a blend of fruit from Trifolera and lots of Rabajà that don’t go into the vineyard designate. It sees about 18 months in oak. The Rabajà bottling gets a few more months in barrel. There is no Riserva Rabajà in 2018, but there likely will be in both 2019 and 2020. I also had a chance to taste the 2016 Riserva, which was just bottled a few months ago. These remain very much classically built wines with natural fermentations (both primary and secondary) and a generally minimalist approach in the cellar.