Le Cecche Barolo Sorano 2017
Piedmont · Barolo · Nebbiolo · red
About this wine
93 POINT Barolo, from a single, totally revered Cru, OVER 50% OFF, and just barely enough for y’all! Go, go, gooooo! LE CECCHE!!! Oh, baby… you are not READY! 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 – black 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 pretty and high-toned throughout – a modern miracle of a Barolo that is really strutting at 7 years young! 2017 was a warmer harvest, that lent itself to some fantastically drinkable Barolos – ones that don’t require 25+ years to really shine! We think that’s a good thing, and one sip will surely have you nodding that noggin “YES!”. 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. 93 POINTS, LESS than two Andrew Jacksons to score this EPIC bottle…what are you waiting for?!?! ** Apropos of nothing, but is there a better, more pulse-quickening, head-nodding, breath-holding song from the silver screen that can compete with “Promentory” in 1992’s The Last of the Mohicans? Thirty-two years later and it still gives me chills. Thanks, Trevor Jones. **
Wine details
- Producer
- Le
- Vintage
- 2017
- Region
- Piedmont
- Appellation
- Barolo
- Varietal
- Nebbiolo
- Color
- red
- Alcohol
- 14
- Last Bottle price
- $39
- Retail price (estimate)
- $85
- Wine-Searcher average
- $42
- CellarTracker score
- 87 (1 reviews)
- Critic score
- 93 — Tasting Panel