Italy

Barbaresco Starderi

Medium

Cork

One of four MGA bottlings from La Spinetta, Starderi is born on compact blue clay. The estate’s longtime export manager Luca Cigliuti describes it as more Rolling Stones than Beatles (that honour goes to Gallina). Indeed, there is an intensity both in colour and aromas. Tar and smoke intertwine with rose, and despite ample raspberry and spicy currant depth of flavour, this weighs in, like many 2023, in the mid-spectrum of the scale – and it is charming for that. Fluid with fine, grainy tannins that clasp at the end but don't hurt, along with an explosive finish of pepper and brambles.

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La Spinetta, Vürsù, Barbaresco Starderi, Neive, Piedmont, Italy, 2023

One of four MGA bottlings from La Spinetta, Starderi is born on compact blue clay. The estate’s longtime export manager Luca Cig

La Spinetta, Vürsù, Barbaresco Starderi, Neive, 2023

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