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2007 is a vintage that was truly blessed. Vintages like 2007 provide winemakers an opportunity to reach deep within themselves and find the one wine in their career that might just be their best. The producers we've selected to represent this vintage know this all too well and will be patiently waiting the rest of their life to see how 2007 fits into their larger narrative. For some, it may turn out to be an outstanding year and one of their favorite vintages.

 

2007 offered one of the best growing seasons that Piemonte has seen in a very long time. A weather pattern of hot, dry days and cold nights let the fussy Nebbiolo ripen, to embody all the specific characteristics of its plot of soil, and to convey that ineffable Barolo terroir. It was the best of all worlds, and when you're talking about this weather in the hands of producers like Aldo or Giacomo Conterno, Bruno Giacosa, Massolino, Sandrone, or Paolo Scavino, then you're sure to have seriously stellar bottles of Barolo.

 

This week, I'm delighted to offer Barolos from some of my favorite Barolo producers in a really fortunate vintage. Great producers have no excuse not to have made a great wine, and we wine-lovers have no excuse not to stock up. These wines give us no excuse why not to enjoy them for the next fifty years. No matter which of these wines you choose, you're getting gorgeous bottles of wine, wines that show why Barolo is, was, and always will be the wine of kings and the king of wine. You've got every reason to indulge at least once.

 

  

 

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Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric del Fiasc 2007
Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric del Fiasc 2007 750ml
Price: $128.99

Masculine notes of tar, smoke, new saddle and earth underlie this wine's bed of roses, violets and deep, dark, rich, ripe fruit. Standing like a victorious toreador strewn with flowers, this '07 Barolo holds a dizzying range of grace, power, vitality, virility and beauty. The nose may seduce you, and the palate may make you fall in love, but the silky tannins will pull you back to the glass. Cellar for a few years but drink for three decades.
Paolo Scavino Barolo Cannubi 2007
Paolo Scavino Barolo Cannubi 2007 750ml
Price: $128.99

Big, bold, brooding and bewitching, this '07 Barolo Cannubi weaves a spell of dark, delicious magic. An ever-evolving kaleidoscope of flavors reveal themselves as the wine opens up in the glass--ripe, opulent fruit; telltale notes of smoke, violets and tar; and a wafting of licorice and cardamom all shift and morph in the nose and mouth. Velvety tannins linger, even as the magical finish fades. Drinking in a few years for the next two-to-three decades, possibly longer.
Paolo Scavino Barolo Bricco Ambrogio 2007
Paolo Scavino Barolo Bricco Ambrogio 2007 750ml
Price: $99.99

The most feminine, pretty Barolo in this beautiful bunch is also the most approachable. The '04 Bricco Ambrogio shines with the warmth, the charm, and the nostalgia of a perfect June day. Floral aromatics, vibrant cherries and berries, just a touch of tar-brushed earth, and a dusting of warm spices typify this wine, whose balance and harmony are so deft as to look easy. Drinking soon and for the next two decades.
Paolo Scavino Barolo Carobric 2007
Paolo Scavino Barolo Carobric 2007 750ml
Price: $99.99

Like a glorious firecracker in the sky, the '07 Carobric has a pyrotechnic personality. Floral, spice and earth perfume shoot up with an almost stealthy grace; wild cherries and frutti de bosco explode on the palate; and a tannic finish lingers and then falls gently as sparks. This wine would like a couple of years in the cellar, but then it will drink gorgeously for the next few decades.
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo 2007
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo 2007 750ml
Price: $79.99

The ’07 Barolos have garnered a reputation for being generous, open, even genial bottles of wine, and Aldo Conterno’s basic Barolo is no exception. Crafted from grapes grown on twenty-year-old vines, this ’07 has a warm, expressive, welcoming nose that ushers you towards a fresh palate laden with fruit, dusted with spices and held in a harmonious, graceful body. There’s not much here that isn’t splendid, and this ’07 drinking for the next couple of decades.
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Cicala 2007 1500ml
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Cicala 2007 1500ml
Price: $309.99

It has lines that speak of timeless yet modernist elegance: Conterno’s Cicala possesses the architectural structure of building by Le Corbusier. It’s an impressively weighty wine with fantastic tannins and a streak of steely minerality that’s balanced by earthy notes of violets, smoke and saddle. A Barolo for wine lovers who have patience and an appreciation for gravitas, this ’07 needs five years in the cellar, but then it’ll drink for two or more decades.
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Colonnello 2007 750ml
Poderi Aldo Conterno Barolo Colonnello 2007 750ml
Price: $134.99

With the dark, voluptuous beauty of Crystal Renn, the ’07 Colonnello is opulent, silky, sophisticated and devastatingly yummy. Bunches of rain-splattered roses and violets greet the nose; ripe, lush fruit lying atop a bed of earth, spice and tar appear on the palate; and a lingering balanced finish resounds like a gong. An exceptional, approachable and elegant wine, this ’07 should start drinking in five years and last for at least the next two decades.
Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia 2007
Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia 2007 750ml
Bottle Price $149.00

Cascina Francia, named for the superb 14-hectare vineyard that also provides grapes for Conterno’s masterful Monfortino, is arguably the one of the finest bottlings of Barolo and unquestionably epitome of a classic Barolo, an expression that presents “good body, alcohol, and tannins, plus that certain something that gives longevity”—elements that represent the pillars of a noble wine in the philosophy of Giacomo Conterno. Exquisite balance, trademark structure, fascinating complexity, along with ample fruit and a kaleidoscopic nose typify this quintessential Barolo.
Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia 2007
Giacomo Conterno Barolo Cascina Francia 2007 1500ml
Bottle Price $350.00

Cascina Francia, named for the superb 14-hectare vineyard that also provides grapes for Conterno’s masterful Monfortino, is arguably the one of the finest bottlings of Barolo and unquestionably epitome of a classic Barolo, an expression that presents “good body, alcohol, and tannins, plus that certain something that gives longevity”—elements that represent the pillars of a noble wine in the philosophy of Giacomo Conterno. Exquisite balance, trademark structure, fascinating complexity, along with ample fruit and a kaleidoscopic nose typify this quintessential Barolo.
   
 
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