2022 Fletcher, Barbaresco 'Recta Pete', Piedmont, Italy Claude Courtois Year planted: 1970 / 2009

Year planted: 1970 / 2009

peppery welcome

medium body

It is bottled without filtration or clarification on a waning moon in September

a good part of it had been abandoned because it was too steep to work

2022 Fletcher, Barbaresco 'Recta Pete', Piedmont, Italy Claude Courtois Year planted: 1970 / 2009This wine is a take on the tradition of blending vineyards that the region was once famous for. It is a wine built to express the best of the region, in the sense that sourcing fruit from several vineyards allows for the art of blending to come into action. Should one vineyard not perform to its best in a particular vintage, it will not be included in the blend. Each vineyard adds to the different layers of the wine and enhances its complexity. This