2013 Manzone Giovanni Barolo Gramolere 750 ml

They don’t call Barolo “The King of Italian Wines,” for nothing. With the possible exception of Burgundy, no region quite shows off its terroir like Barolo, and this is your chance to secure a phenomenal example of Piedmontese terroir. 

Simply put, it’s hard to go wrong with 2013 Barolo. Antonio Galloni, the top Italian-wine critic in the United States, singled out the 2013 Barolo vintage as showing “sublime finesse and elegance” with “the pedigree and class that are the signatures of the best Barolo vintages.” 

And in 2013, few producers outdid Manzone. The storied winery Manzone has been producing some of the finest Nebbiolo-based wines in the appellation since the family’s purchase of the parish priest’s house, the Ciabot del Preve, in Monforte d’Alba in 1925. Eventually, the family came to own two of the top vineyards in Monforte, Castelletto and Gramolere, and has been crafting wines of exceptional expressiveness and longevity from them ever since.

Now, start envisioning this wine in your home: 

The 2013 Giovanni Manzone Barolo Gramolere comes from the Gramolere site located at the same elevation of the Castelletto vineyard, but consists of roughly 10 acres of south-west facing vines. It boasts complex aromas of tar and smoke, balanced by rose petal, cardamom, fresh cherry, loganberry, and leather—lean and structured, full of energetic black cherry and mineral, with fine tannic grip and fresh acidic lift. Just coming into its own after six years of aging, this is a 94-point superstar Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate praised as an “articulate and exuberant expression of contemporary Nebbiolo.”

No Italian wine expresses its terroir quite like Barolo, and today we invite you to experience that terroir for yourself.