Elio Altare, Barolo Vigneto Arborina, 1986 Continue Selling OOS The wine opens with an

The wine opens with an enticing nose of ripe blackberries

and Cuvee 1762 takes its name from that founding year

this is right at the start of its drinking window — generous and gracious already

The grapes macerate about 20 days in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts

silty alkaline soils with marine fossils and high sand content—terroir that yields wines of subtlety and finesse rather than brute power

Elio Altare, Barolo Vigneto Arborina, 1986 Continue Selling OOS The wine opens with anA 40 year old museum piece from the man who rewrote Barolo. In 1983 Elio Altare took a chainsaw to his father's old Slavonian botti the founding gesture of the Barolo Boys movement, and the moment that split the appellation into modernist and traditionalist camps. Arborina was his cuve among the very first single vineyard Barolos ever bottled, from his family's La Morra parcel. The 1986 was a difficult, low yielding vintage marked by spring hail, but