Cigliuti is a small, charming family business in the Serrabulla cru that produces Barbaresco of outstanding quality. Due to their small production volume and widespread name recognition, this red wine from Piedmont is hard to come by! Fortunately, we managed to get our hands on a small batch of their top Barbaresco! What a beautiful wine that Cigliuti Barbaresco Serrabulla is! Wow, top class! Many vintages already received 3 glasses in the Italian wine guide Gambero Rosso, to name just one example.<\/p>\n
The Cigliuti Barbaresco Serraboella is cherry red and still reasonably transparent. On the nose, it is ethereal, floating, and still a little hidden for this young version. However, there are already notes of cherries (cherry coke), some licorice, tar, mushrooms, and earthy tones on the nose. The power but also finesse (especially in this top vintage of 2016) is currently still kept in check by its youth. On the palate, a very soft start followed by an explosion of juice and concentration with cocoa, licorice, and cherries again. Next, the acidity and tannins break free: in the young wine, these are still somewhat detached from the wine and are therefore still prominently present. About six years after the harvest, the harmony begins to become clearer and the mouthfeel becomes more refined. Enormous finish; a wine for aging par excellence.<\/p>\n
To those who ask Renato Cigliuti what the secret to the quality of his wines is, he keeps repeating that it is the land: \u201cthis blessed land with these vineyards where I was born\u201d. Renato Cigliuti continues the business with his family with passion and dedication, preferring a rustic approach without forcing anything. The vineyard is his habitat: a generous land, vineyards with orderly rows. In the southwest of the estate\u2019s vineyards, with limestone, Dolcetto and Nebbiolo are grown, while in the southeast, where the soil is clayey, Barbera is cultivated.<\/p>\n