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Pio Cesare Barolo Chinato 750ml
Pio Cesare Barolo Chinato 750ml
SKU:2155830-1
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DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Pio Cesare is a historic family winery in Piedmont, known for its Barolo. From its early days the family made small amounts of Barolo Chinato from the founder's own recipe. Production stopped in the early 1950s, and the family brought it back in recent years, using the recipe kept safe by the founder's granddaughter.
Barolo Chinato is Barolo flavored with herbs and spices. Two kinds of cinchona bark, the source of quinine, are macerated for 21 days in a little of the family's Barolo, along with gentian root, rhubarb, cardamom, sweet and bitter orange and cinnamon. This infusion is then blended with more Barolo, lightly fined, aged four months in oak and rested at least two months in bottle. It is 16% alcohol. The color is dark amber, and the aromas run from balsam and mountain herbs to candied orange peel, cola and baking spice. Sweet, then pleasantly bitter, with a long, dry finish.
Serve at cool room temperature in a small wine glass as an after-dinner drink, or over one ice cube with an orange twist. It is a classic match for dark chocolate desserts.
Wine Advocate: 94 points. Jeb Dunnuck: 94 points.
Bottle size: 750ml
