2005 Barolo Cannubi Boschis

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Luciano Sandrone describes 2005 as a cool vintage overall. Some of the vineyards were hit by hail early in the season, just after flowering, which ultimately slowed down ripening. The 2005s are dark, powerful wines with deeper color and more overt oak influence than has become the norm these days.

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Over the last few years, Luciano Sandrone has introduced a library program for his Barolos and Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore. There is no difference between the library wines and the original releases, except these bottles have been stored at the winery and carry slightly different labels.

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Sandrone was one of the only vintners who told me he made use of the 2005 Barolo fruit harvested after the early-October rain. "The year brought a classic climate and our weather in October was actually typical, with rain in the middle of the harvest," he told me. "But we picked immediately after the rain, before we got rot, and we found that the fruit was riper. Actually, September and October were like two completely different harvests. The half of our crop that was picked after the rain was in the village of Monforte [including most of the fruit that goes into the Barolo Le Vigne bottling], but the grapes stayed healthy due to the work we had done in the vines. The 2005s remind me of old-style Barolos: they will reveal themselves very slowly." Sandrone describes 2006 as elegant and stylish-"cleaner than 2005 but sweeter too." He was eager to show off his very dense 2007 Barolos, and they were indeed impressive. "It's a warm style of wine from a low crop level," he explained. "Not as classic as usual but with normal acidity and high levels of dry extract."

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A visit with Luciano Sandrone is always a highlight of my tastings in Piedmont. As usual, I spent quite a bit of time tasting through the 2006s, 2007s, and 2008s, and I am happy to report that Sandrone has a number of exciting wines in the cellar at this stage. Even though Sandrone is one of the earliest producers to bottle his Barolos, the 2005s have only recently begun to show their true potential.

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Since finishing construction of his new temperature-controlled winemaking facility in 1999, Sandrone has held back about 10% of his Barolo production for later release eight to ten years after the vintage, and in the future that percentage may go up to 30%. "Our wines shouldn't be sold, or consumed, too young," he told me. He's also varying his prices to reflect vintage quality for all of his wines except dolcetto-"an idea I stole from the French winemakers. " Not surprisingly, my visit to Sandrone was one of the highlights of my September tour. Sandrone describes 2004 as "one of our greatest vintages-there's almost nothing to say about it. It's a great year with a lot of structure and elegance. " Incidentally, Sandrone describes 2005 as a more classic vintage than 2006. "We got a good long season without extreme heat, and the day-night temperature variation gave us firm tannins that are not hard. " Sandrone leaves his Barolos on their malolactic lees until the summer after the harvest, doing some batonnage, a technique he says he picked up from a visit to Burgundy.

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