9/17/25 -

Today's offer aims to highlight the exceptional 2021 vintage in Piemonte, from Barolo and Barbaresco to Barbera, along with a special Timorasso from 2016 that we couldn't resist including! In a region with so many crus, each one rich with its own story, there is an endless amount to know and taste; so today's offer is meant to honor even the tiniest plots that form the vast patchwork of Piemonte. 2021 is known as a 'classic' vintage, a word that seems to reminisce for a time before climate change. Aging potential, structure, and aromatic complexity mark the year and I can't wait to see how they continue to evolve.

Giulia Negri Barolo Tartufaia 2021
Giulia Negri has earned the affectionate nickname 'Barologirl' after purchasing an estate in La Morra in 2014 at the young age of 24. La Morra is the highest point in Barolo, known for perfume and elegance and Negri's estate is in the even more specific cru of Serradenari. Giulia Negri maintains traditional techniques of her region through extended submerged cap macerations and aging in large casks, with a keen eye towards the future. 'Tartufaia' is truffle forest in English, meant to represent the truffles native to the area. To Negri, Barolo is "a work of art that belongs to the future," and I feel this aptly sums up her youthful approach, while honoring time and patience. I can't wait to see where Giulia Negri is headed after many already successful vintages.

Cascina delle Rose Barbaresco Tre Stelle 2021
Giovanna Rizzolio of Cascine delle Rose is a benchmark producer for the tiny crus of Rio Sordo and Tre Stelle in Neive, Barbaresco. In the 80's and 90's where women did not often farm (especially organically) she developed a name for her family and their land and even started Barbaresco's first licensed agrotourismo. Originally, Cascina delle Rose only farmed in Rio Sordo, but boundaries in Barbaresco were redrawn in 2006 and Tre Stelle was born due to special characteristics. With less topsoil than Rio Sordo, Tre Stelle's vines are in even closer contact with limestone giving the wines their characteristic lithe structure and stony minerality. Giovanna, and her sons who are now running things, are the only growers in this cru! The wine is graceful now, or can continue to age. This is the end of the 2021, with the 2022’s close behind!

Giuseppe Nada Barbaresco Marcarini 2021
The Nada family works in Treiso, the Southernmost third of Barbaresco which is the highest elevation and smallest in terms of acreage. The estate is a true family affair, parents working the vines (until Giuseppe sadly passed away in 2023), son in the cellar, and daughter managing the office. Giuseppe's grandfather purchased their cru called Casot from the Gaja family in the early 1900's. The wine featured today is Marcarini, their cru on the other side of the hill. Giuseppe's son Enrico converted the family estate to organics, native fermentations with no SO2, and minimal filtering over the past 17 years. Great wine made even greater!

Brovia Nebbiolo d'Alba 2021
Brovia has been written about, and visit by Jamie Wolff many times. These wines from Elena Brovia & Alex Sanchez are staples at Chambers Street Wines and for good reason. Today on offer is their Nebbiolo d'Alba 2021, from a half hectare vineyard called Valmaggiore, which is aged in stainless steel. Fragrant, balanced, elegant, and light-medium bodied: it is drinking exquisite now. Things are changing for the 2022 vintage, this wine will be labeled as Langhe Nebbiolo, be sure to grab a bottle of 2021 now as this is the last drop of the vintage! 

Elio Sandri, Cascina Disa Barbera d'Alba Superiore 2021
Elio Sandri is a small production grower in Monforte quietly making beautiful, age-worthy wines. Jamie Wolff and friend of the shop, Gregory dal Piaz, did a fantastic write-up on Elio Sandri, linked here, which I will not try to improve upon.
 
What I can contribute is that I absolutely love Barbera, and probably drink it more often than Nebbiolo. Barbera gives that concentration of blackberry, plum, earth, and purple flowers- a profile that I love. Elio Sandri's Barbera ages just as well as his Nebbiolo, a true testament to Barbera's potential in a cellar! But at a great value just under $40, be sure to see how delicious it is today, already with 4 years of age.

Baricchi TimorassoVino Ca Va Sans Dire Bianco NV
Only made in exceptional vintages, this is 2016 base wine from the rare and special grape called Timorasso sourced from a vineyard planted in the 1950’s. The wine was aged around six months on the lees with batonnage in stainless steel after which it went into neutral, used barriques for 9 years before being bottled. The extended aging allows time for Timorasso to fully express its potential, reminding me of both aged Riesling and Chenin Blanc. While the long barrel aging certainly creates harmony and identity, it does not take away any freshness. It explodes out of the glass with peachy, golden, tropical fruit notes and a strong core of limestone minerality.

I hope you get some wine to drink now and some to age!
 
-Marisa Licandro

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