2021 Fratelli Alessandria, Barolo, San Lorenzo di Verduno Cuvee_Rocche MassalupoVittore Alessandria maintains a classicist's restraint in Verduno, employing extended macerations of up to 30 days and three years of aging in neutral Slavonian *botti* to prioritize site transparency. The San Lorenzo cru sits on south facing slopes of SantAgata Fossili marls, a silty, limestone rich soil composition that facilitates greater structural lift and mineral focus than the clay heavy crus of the southern communes. The 2021 growing season,
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Today this wine is chalky
Unmistakably rye in every way
The 2015 Bond St
A blend of Sciaccarellu
characterized by significant drought and early ripening
The limestome and white marl soils produced a perfectly balanced and classy wine
This resulting wine displays a hallmark tension
rocky fossiliferous crinoidal limestone soils
The site itself
a harmonious mid-palate weight
Domaine Leroy’s meticulous stewardship of the Les Santenots du Milieu vineyard—defined by rigorous biodynamic farming and infinitesimal yields—is the singular driver behind the density and structural integrity of this 2005 release