Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 MSK_Champagne_Fall_2021 Osamu Uchida's Classical C shows

Osamu Uchida's Classical C shows the purity seldom seen on Bordeaux's Left Bank

a whisper of earthy spice

hints of coriander

The palate is medium-bodied

intense aroma and inspiring flavour

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 MSK_Champagne_Fall_2021 Osamu Uchida's Classical C showsThere 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