Bramaterra Red Blend

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of an hour. The 2021 pours a bright garnet color with a transparent core; medium viscosity with no staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is developing with fabulous notes of wild raspberries, Morello cherry, freshly cut roses, cedar chest, orange zest, alpine herbs and rocky earth. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannin and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is medium+. This is really beautiful stuff. The nose alone positively slays. Drink now through 2041. Thanks for the assist @Lyle Fass

Volnay Caillerets 🤝 Alto Piemonte

Always so beautiful. Like Volnay through the prism of Nebbiolo. Dried roses, cherry, dead leaves, spice, chestnut and wild mint. Gorgeous. Palate is so supple and juicy. Clean and pure. Big but ripe tannins and gorgeous cherry fruit. Long, resonant finish. Very elegant. Just a wonderful wine. Really nimble and precise. Such sweet fruit.

This wine is so beautiful. It defies words but words are all I have so here goes nothing. Haunting nose of mid season cherries, melting road tar, dried and fresh roses, spice and cigar. Woodshop, old library books and so much more. Tweed jacket as well. A mesmerizing and spellbinding nose. Palate is just so together and integrated. This is so special with gorgeously refined tannins and amazing purity and freshness. So much refinement hard not to think of Piedmontese Volnay. So concentrated and so nimble with heavenly mid to late season cherry fruit. Terrific structure for long again. Wow. I’ll follow this throughout the night. After many hours of air this has melllowed out and it just flat out gorgeous with stunning fruit presence and clarity. Amazing length. 9.5 to 9.6.

More notes later while I revel in the beauty of this.

Nose is fresh and crushed roses and gorgeous early season cherry. Some lovely umami as well and tar. Just so fragrant and has a haunting quality. It’s really pretty. Achingly so. Palate is the platonic ideal of early season cherry. So elegant and nimble on the palate. Volnay like. Good fruit and length. Dusty fine tannin. Wow.

The most Volnay of an AP wine I’ve ever had. Haunting nose of wild cherries, spice and mint. Fresh fallen leaves, earth and minerals. Leather, tar and old books. Some tweed jacket as well. So clean. Awesome aromas. So complex, enveloping and inviting. Super elegant and juicy with sweet mid season red cherry fruit and awesome purity and concentration. Much more approachable than the 16 at this point. So supple and succulent. This is so classy and has great breeding. The nose gets more complex with air. Really complex spice and florals start to develop. 9.6 nose. Super sweet fruit and painful tiny berry fruit intensity and suave tannins. 9.5 for real. Wow wine.

This is Piedmontese Volnay. The most Burgundian Alto Piemonte wine ever. Smells like elite Village Volnay. Cherries. Upon cherries. So pure and refined. Gobs of minerals and elite dried roses. Just bananas aromas. Palate is next level refined but also has a hint of charming rusticity. Juicy and pure with velvety tannins and awesome freshness. Elite wine with structure to burn. Enjoy now and over 15 years. Brilliant showing.

Another new AP producer. Floral, expansive and delicate nose. Also loads of tar and tobacco. Mid to end of season cherries, cherry flower, mineral and sour cherry. Fragrant off the bat but needs 10-15 minutes to get going. Then gorgeous wet leaves and a burgundy sensibility. Layered and haunting. Like Volnay. Rich and decadent with cutting acids and big black and red cherry fruit and soft but substantial tannins. Loads of energy and purity. Terrific inner mouth florals balance and juiciness. Lovely tannin quality and awesome finesse. This is terrific. After some air this becomes more compact, fresh and complete. Brilliant wine. No hard edges and super engaging mid palate which crashes into a painfully intense tiny berry fruited finish with glorious sap and structure. Incredible.

Out of the gates beautiful nose. Blueberry violet mashup. Intense but round. Really pretty. A bare hint of spice to round it out. Intensely floral. A 9.5 nose.

As it opens more dense deep and profound. Wow. Almost like dehydrated cherries. That savory cherry spice melange that you only get from $$$ expensive Barolo. Just infiltrates the nose. Cherry spice intense perfume

Palate is tight on open. Crushed blueberries. Grippy tanins. As this opens piercingly bright cherry and sour cherry. Very clean and precise.

1 hour in dense deep cherries. Chocolate and spice in a balancing way. Controlled density. Has that savoriness you get in high end Nebbiolo. Barolo weight in this vintage. This is clean. Sick juiciness. Old school barolo weight. Present but not obnoxious.

An hour in ... a long finish. Savory. A hint of chocolate. Cherry.

Needs 2-3 years is my guess to drink without a 1 hour decant. We’ll see.

This is a sick young “Barolo” an hour in. Wow.

9.5 is the floor here. It has the balance structure and density to be a world killer in 10 years.

Bought from fass selections.

A 2018, but just wow. Stunning aromatics and mouthfeel. I had no idea Bramaterra could be like this...a revelation.