Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2012 so020224 new italy arrivals offer and oenologist Laure Guilloteau

and oenologist Laure Guilloteau

launched in 1995

now run by the next generation

having spent his final decades working alongside his sister Elena (and after her death in 2016

5-hectare parcel on fossil-rich limestone at 408m altitude with old vines

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2012 so020224 new italy arrivals offer and oenologist Laure GuilloteauThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. The late, iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, going against everything conventional wisdom said about phylloxera. The wine, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old botti, is one of the most coveted in Piedmont. The 2012 is a classic, balanced