G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe 2021 SO20231109 Tiny production wine in a

Tiny production wine in a small format bottle

The agave is roasted for three days in an earthen pit and distilled twice in a traditional wood-fired Alembic still

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but is sourced from old vines

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G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe 2021 SO20231109 Tiny production wine in aAldo Vaira, and his son Giuseppe, the two generations now managing the domaine, have an interesting specialty: Barolo from high altitudes. Even their residence is way up in Vergne, the highest altitude village in the DOC. High altitudes have some well known effects. The vines ripen later, so you get longer growing seasons and better acidities. You have thinner soils with rocky outposts, so you get more minerality. But here is a lesser known