Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2012 so020224 new italy arrivals offer Justin Willett and Eric Railsback

Justin Willett and Eric Railsback built Lieu Dit around a singular vision: Loire varieties in California

The blend—80% Merlot

having spent his final decades working alongside his sister Elena (and after her death in 2016

well above the Grand Crus

now run by the next generation

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2012 so020224 new italy arrivals offer Justin Willett and Eric RailsbackThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. The late, iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, going against everything conventional wisdom said about phylloxera. The wine, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old botti, is one of the most coveted in Piedmont. The 2012 is a classic, balanced