Elio Altare, Barolo Vigneto Arborina, 1986 Continue Selling OOS Secondary notes of cedar

Secondary notes of cedar

yet with old-school California suaveness and swagger

no filtration: the land speaks clearly

this is right at the start of its drinking window — generous and gracious already

silty alkaline soils with marine fossils and high sand content—terroir that yields wines of subtlety and finesse rather than brute power

Elio Altare, Barolo Vigneto Arborina, 1986 Continue Selling OOS Secondary notes of cedarA 40 year old museum piece from the man who rewrote Barolo. In 1983 Elio Altare took a chainsaw to his father's old Slavonian botti the founding gesture of the Barolo Boys movement, and the moment that split the appellation into modernist and traditionalist camps. Arborina was his cuve among the very first single vineyard Barolos ever bottled, from his family's La Morra parcel. The 1986 was a difficult, low yielding vintage marked by spring hail, but