2021 Fratelli Alessandria, Barolo, San Lorenzo di Verduno Cuvee_Rocche Massalupo easy-sipping intro to the world

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The site itself

rocky fossiliferous crinoidal limestone soils

Today this wine is chalky

2021 Fratelli Alessandria, Barolo, San Lorenzo di Verduno Cuvee_Rocche Massalupo easy-sipping intro to the worldVittore Alessandria maintains a classicist's restraint in Verduno, employing extended macerations of up to 30 days and three years of aging in neutral Slavonian *botti* to prioritize site transparency. The San Lorenzo cru sits on south facing slopes of SantAgata Fossili marls, a silty, limestone rich soil composition that facilitates greater structural lift and mineral focus than the clay heavy crus of the southern communes. The 2021 growing season,