Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2016 123025CONCOSA drizzling over fruit

drizzling over fruit

and clay soils give Starey a fine-grained

where Le Mont is all mineral cut and Clos du Bourg is the powerful one

with roots dating back to 1810

Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2016 123025CONCOSA drizzling over fruitRabaj is one of Barbaresco's great crus, and the Cortese family has farmed a chunk of it for generations from their cellar right in the heart of the vineyard a natural amphitheater beside Asili looking out over Martinenga, running from roughly 235 to 315 meters and facing south and southwest. This is old school, traditional Barbaresco: Nebbiolo grown on the prized marl limestone slopes of Rabaj, fermented in stainless steel and old cement tanks with a