Cappellano Barolo Chinato (2017 Vintage)

Text from Rosenthal Wine Merchants: "Few people are aware that it was Augusto's ancestor Giuseppe, a doctor by trade, who invented the incredible elixir known as Barolo Chinato. The recipe remains unchanged to this day: a mix of Barolo wine from a single vintage with a decoction of several dozen spices and herbs, the details of which are top-secret and known only to Augusto. When Cappellano's Chinato took off decades ago, Augusto's predecessors used fake names and many different sources so that the ingredient list would remain secret; Augusto to this day uses the same enormous mortar and pestle used by Giuseppe to crush the spices, and consults the very sheet of written instructions Giuseppe drafted in the late 1800s."