Ghiomo Ruit Hora, Piedmont, Italy 2019 Italian Aperitivo mouth-filling meatiness

mouth-filling meatiness

George Belden Crane

Sylvain Pataille is one of the new breed of winemakers who first achieved the highest level of technical training before beginning to craft his own wines

and a unique elegance to the wine

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Ghiomo Ruit Hora, Piedmont, Italy 2019 Italian Aperitivo mouth-filling meatinessThe Barbera Ruit Hora di Ghiomo is a full bodied and flavorful wine made with 90% Barbera and 10% Nebbiolo grapes carefully selected from the vineyard, with rigorous attention to reducing the load on each vine to only one cluster per shoot. Giuseppino Anfossi, a true artisan winemaker, personally oversees the entire winemaking process in the cellar. After fermentation, the wine is aged in exhausted and vaporized oak barrels for 14 months, followed by