Giuseppe Cortese Langhe Nebbiolo 2019

Pale garnet in color, this wine offers delicately layered aromas of dried red cherries, plums, cola and sweet spice. On the palate, the wine is perfectly structured with integrated, fine-grained tannins and lively acidity, which along with its rich flavors, evolve into a sumptuously long finish. Ideal with robustly flavored cheese or braised beef dishes.

Give this a little swirl to bring out the lovely wild-strawberries and ash-like mineral notes. Some sweet floral notes, too. Medium to light body with bright acidity, but tight, slightly drying tannins for now. Should even out very soon. Real young nebbiolo here. Drink from 2022.

The Giuseppe Cortese 2019 Langhe Nebbiolo pours from the bottle with a lean color and appearance. It shows shiny highlights of both garnet and darker shade of purplish ruby. This wine happily and fullheartedly embraces all of the most naked characteristics of the Nebbiolo grape, with forest fruit, tilled earth and freshly milled white pepper. This is a terrific wine for an informal trattoria meal with a huge spread of appetizers and slices of pizza shared by friends from the same pie.