Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 with the spirit now fully

with the spirit now fully absorbed into the wine

so there's no blending to sand down the edges

The winemaking is thoroughly Burgundian: hand-harvest

30% Pinot Noir and 15% Chardonnay with 15% reserve wines

and utterly refreshing

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 with the spirit now fullyThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old