Langhe, Italy

If only 90% of Barbaresco made was this good?! Dave’s Langhe Nebbiolo fruit is drawn from two different regions – Scaparoni and Monta – both of them located just across the Tanaro river, a short drive from the Barbaresco zone. Vinified with the same care and attention as Fletcher’s Barbaresco bottlings, the resulting wine spends just a little less time in the cellar before release. Fruit is fully destemmed and extractions are gentle, the resulting wine pressed in 10 year old, 300L barrels for 13-14 months before going to bottle for a further 6 months before release. Don't pull the cork and expect a runner-up type Nebbiolo here, intentionally knocked down a couple of notches like many producers do to their basic Nebbiolo wines. Wonderfully suave and packed with Nebbiolo purity on both nose and palate, Fletcher’s Langhe sees a core of powdery red raspberry and Amarena cherry fruit, an incisive streak a balsamic twang lending lift and verve, while a cooler menthol quality brings a countering bass note. Fined toned and silky tannins provide a perfectly approachable frame to this killer ‘baby’ Barbaresco. Fletcher makes wines of elegance; lovers, not fighters.