Renato Ratti Conca Barolo DOCG 2013 Elegant, decadent

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Conca refers to a conch shell. Ratti Conca Barolo is just 0.7 hectare at the bottom of the hill in La Morra. It is a powerful, long-lived style.

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Conca refers to a conch shell. Ratti Conca Barolo is just 0.7 hectare at the bottom of the hill. One of the oldest sub-zones of Barolo it’s soil and microclimate was known and celebrated by the Benedictine monks. It shows iodine and stones with ripe, power and intensity. The palate is silky and plush with cola and a tight core. The structure is still there to age and improve. Ratti Conca Barolo from La Morra is the powerful, long-lived style. Ideally, you would not touch Ratti Conca Barolo for a long time.

The 2013 Ratti Conca Barolo is approaching its drinking window. If you do drink it now, give it a long decant and something hearty to pair with it.

Renato Ratti Conca Barolo DOCG 2013 Wine Notes

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
94 points
The excellent 2013 Barolo Conca breaks away from past editions in terms of intensity and elegance. This classic vintage has produced a wine of power, heft and concentration. Yet that determination is delivered with polite manners. The base of the wine consists of ample structure and depth. The multilayered aromas on top peel back to reveal dark cherry, licorice and white truffle. This wine is endowed with generous heft and substance that should carry it steadily through its bottle evolution.”

Stephen Brook Decanter.com
92
From a sheltered site, this offers a lush, oaky, raspberry nose with considerable opulence. Suave and very concentrated, this has ample tannin without any toughness. There’s a slight earthiness on the finish, but this has grip, tension, and length. Drinking Window 2020 – 2035″

Renato Ratti revolutionised Barolo, and we all can appreciate his contribution. Renato Ratti has passed away, but his winemaker and family carried on his legacy. The estate style is that of intensity and power. They pack in some alcohol and balance it with new French barriques. These are wines that don’t necessarily look their best young, but with age, the good old tar n roses come back.

Piedmont 

Piedmont is one of the most significant wine regions in the world. Its name means the ‘foot of the mountain’. Piedmont is in the North-Western reach of Italy. There are a lot of parallels drawn between the best wines of Piedmont (Barolo and Barbaresco) and the wines of Burgundy. The region neighbours France and Switzerland with its border defined by the Alps to the North and west and Apennines to the South. These natural defences kept the Ligurians safe from Roman invasions. Luckily it didn’t work forever, as we may not have the wines that we cherish today.

Barolo DOCG

Made from 100% Nebbiolo aged for least 3 years (5 for Riserva). Famous villages include La Morra, Verduno, Castiglione, Montforte, Serralunga and Barolo. Awarded DOCG in 1980.

Barolo

Nebbiolo

They are famously producing long-lived red wines. Light of colour, but abundant in tannin. Barolo and Barbaresco are the pinnacles of Nebbiolo. But many local and international regions are catching up. Typical flavours include tar, roses, anise, cherry, blackberry and truffle.

Italian Wine

There are 1000s and 1000s of grapes in Italy. There are sub-alpine cool-climate regions in the North and Sun-baked vineyards in the South. Add to that, volcanoes and many cultures within one Country. You could struggle to find anything uniform about the wines. The best of the best include Tuscan reds from Sangiovese or Cabernet. Nebbiolo from Piedmont, especially Barolo and Barbaresco. The aromatic whites of NE Italy from Garganega, Pinot Grigio, and numerous crazy blends. The volcanic wines of Mt Etna in Sicily. And many more.

The only generalisation I will make is that a lot of Italian wine is undervalued when compared to a similar French style.

Italian Wine

Wine

Wine is the result you get from fermented grape juice. There is proof of wine production dating back 8000 years ago. Fashions, innovations and many other factors have influenced the way wine has evolved over the years.

The wine grape is special. It contains everything you need to make grape wine except for the yeast, which lives on the outside of the skins.

Human inputs can influence the final product, including the viticulture (growing) choices. And the winemaker can shape the wine to a point too.

The best wines of the world often refer to terroir. Terroir is a French term that refers to all the climatic, geological and topographical influences on a specific piece of land. And it is true that neighbouring vineyards, grown identically, can taste noticeably different.

Red Wine

Fun fact; most of the colour for wines comes from the skins. There are only a handful of grapes that have red juice. Alicante is the most well known of these grapes.

By macerating the juice on the skins, the wine gains tannins, and flavours. Certain compounds change the chemistry of the wine too.

Red wines tend to have higher alcohol. More tannin and more oak flavours compared to other styles of wine. But the thousands of grapes and terroirs they grow in influence this.

Renato Ratti Conca Barolo DOCG 2013
Renato Ratti Conca Barolo DOCG 2013

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