Le Cecche Barolo Sorano 2016
Piedmont · Barolo · Nebbiolo · red
About this wine
You all loved the Luigi Einaudi, and it's gone...but how about this CRAZY limited 94 POINT Barolo, from a single, totally revered Cru, OVER 50% OFF, and just barely enough for y’all!? Go, go, gooooo! Better still??? Can you say: 2016?!?!?! Oh yes, that magical, mythical, fully-treasured, and fiercely collected Piemonte vintage – considered to be among the best of all time – and cherished for producing age-worthy, elegant, complex, and nom-nom delish Barolos just…like…THIS! Luxardo cherries, figs, vanilla, cocoa beans, and honey-roasted dates open up the aromas, coupled with this complex and totally age-worthy nocino element (that’s a black walnut-based concoction for anyone that didn’t grow up with Italians…and it is YUM!). Then – tart cherries, sun-kissed plums, with a lingering note of orange liqueur, and mineral-y graphite. This is freakishly deep and endlessly layered, but somehow stays super-light and high-toned throughout – a modern miracle of a Barolo that is really strutting at 8 years young! Y’all Piemonte Purists have been crushing on Le Cecche’s fantastic portfolio of wines for years – ever since we discovered them and started bringing them across the pond to share some time ago. We look forward to visiting and tasting each year – and DANG! If these don’t just keep getting better, and better! Le Cecche is the product of the brilliant Jan de Bruyne and his wife, Marchioness Paola Invrea. He’s a retired Belgian doctor, she’s Italian royalty (who just happens to make the most delicious breadsticks!), and they’ve been at the helm of Le Cecche since 2001. They started small, revamping a little vineyard around their home in the postcard hamlet of Diano d’Alba. But as the quality has risen, the mad passion intensified…and new, world-class vineyards have been brought into the fold. The Sorano Cru is in the iconic Serralunga part of Barolo, with a southwesterly exposed hillside of 10-million-year-old sandstone, with more clay than limestone, helping to craft soft and silky smooth expressions of Nebbiolo. 94 POINTS, ONLY two Andrew Jacksons to score this EPIC bottle!
Wine details
- Producer
- Le Cecche
- Vintage
- 2016
- Region
- Piedmont
- Appellation
- Barolo
- Varietal
- Nebbiolo
- Color
- red
- Alcohol
- 15
- Last Bottle price
- $39
- Retail price (estimate)
- $85
- Wine-Searcher average
- $48
- CellarTracker score
- 90.6 (6 reviews)
- Critic score
- 94 — Tasting Panel