Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 and utterly refreshing

and utterly refreshing

and Trousselle treats it with exactly the same attention he gives his single-vineyard cuvées: hand-harvested fruit

with the spirit now fully absorbed into the wine

He trained with Julian Haart

Les Folatières

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 Clusel Roch 2021 and utterly refreshingThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old