Prunotto Bussia Barolo, Piedmont (2021) Corporate Helena in 1973

Helena in 1973

" followed by a full decade of patient maturation within the estate’s historic

a bottle of Aperol & a bottle of our excellent Di Maria Prosecco

not a novelty stand-in: the classic three-grape Champagne blend

Prunotto Bussia Barolo, Piedmont (2021) Corporate Helena in 1973When Prunotto bottled its 1961 Bussia, single vineyard Barolo barely existed as an idea it arrived the same year as Vietti's Rocche di Castiglione, the two of them among the first crus the region ever named on a label. The fruit comes from the great amphitheatre shaped vineyard above Monforte d'Alba, where varied south to south west exposures give the Nebbiolo both ripeness and lift. The approach is deliberately classical. Grapes are sorted, destemmed