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2023 Matè

Wine Details
Producer

Sottimano

Place of Origin

Italy

Neive

Piedmont

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Brachetto

Vintages
202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201020092008
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Drinking Window

2024 - 2030

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My recent visit with Andrea Sottimano was one of the most interesting of my trip to Barbaresco in September 2024. The 2023s, which I tasted from cask, are gorgeous, promising, young Barbarescos. Sottimano gave his 2023s 40-45 days on the skins, as he felt the quality of the grapes and skins was very high. The 2022 vintage here is much more complicated. Sottimano did not bottle any Barbaresco, not even a blended appellation wine. "The wines were just too far off the level of the 2021s and 2023s and not really what we strive to make here," Sottimano told me matter-of-factly. As for the 2021s, they are every bit as magnificent as they were last year. Cold nights in September and into October provided ideal conditions for richly expressive, structured wines. The 2021s saw extended time on the skins and were aged in cask, with no racking until bottling. These are some of the most impressive wines I have tasted in 25 years of visiting the estate.