BARBARESCO Riserva Sottimano 2013 vs CHARMES CHAMBERTIN Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot 2014
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. BARBARESCO Riserva Sottimano 2013 currently starts £0.05 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £294.95 | £295.00 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Style | Other | Other |
| Grape | Nebbiolo | Pinot Noir |
| Region | Barbaresco | — |
| ABV | 14.5% | 13.5% |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
BARBARESCO Riserva Sottimano 2013
The Sottimano 2013 Barbaresco Riserva is dense and explosive right out of the gate. Rich dark fruit, kirsch, blood orange, cloves, licorice and leather power through. The Riserva, a selection of old-vine fruit from Cottá and Pajorè is a big wine that, in 2013, captures the house style of the era, a time when the wines were marked quite a bit by French oak and just as Sottimano was beginning to experiment with longer macerations. As such, it is a wine that belongs to a previous era here. Over the last few months the elements have started to come together nicely.
CHARMES CHAMBERTIN Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot 2014
(from tiny grapes in what Lignier described as the last plot in Mazoyères before Charmes; 13. 2% natural alcohol; 60% vendange entier; Lignier did just a single pigeage late in the fermentation): Deep red-ruby. Superripe but brooding aromas of cassis, blackberry, smoked meat, game, licorice and bitter chocolate. Plush, thick and sweet but with surprising definition and lift to its violet and boysenberry flavors. Not a particularly mineral style but a major mouthful of sweet, supple purple fruits. This wine has a rather high pH of 3. 7 but does not lack for energy. Lignier noted that he used to make this wine with 100% whole clusters. He farms these vines for the owner but noted that they will probably be sold before the 2016 harvest.
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