2021 Benotti Rosavica Nebiulina Langhe Nebbiolo

A new project by Sydney's 'fun' Italian wine guy Giorgio de Maria. Small-batch Langhe Nebbiolo from a tiny family farm.

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Giorgio de Maria is the Italian to know in Sydney wine circles, having introduced the city to small batch unique Italian wines in the early 2000’s with his at the time ground-breaking Surry Hills wine bar/shop Vini.

He’s since moved on to distribution, and without a doubt is the main man responsible for the explosion of new and interesting lo-fi Italian wines making their way to Australia. Here he has partnered with a tiny family run winery, Benotti Rosavica, in Roero; a small region in the north of Piemonte to produce this wine.

Bright and fresh, this is classic and pure Nebbiolo, quite aromatic with rose and violets, interspersed with spice notes. It’s an intense burst of red fruit on the palate, with a gentle, slight tannin profile that is the hallmark of delicate wines from this grand grape.

93 Points - "A one and a half hectare, organically planted plot. A collaboration between importer Giorgio de Maria and his local winemaker friend in Roero. No oak nebbiolo (cement) is the idea, and a shorter maceration. All fruit, says Giorgio.Juicy, bright, gently crunchy, light and super fresh feeling. A little tug of pretty tannin, just so and wonderful, an immense sense of drinkability and general charisma. Quaffing red, but with lots more going on and the full flex of the nude grape spoken loud. It's red cherry, crisp cranberry, herbal spice, dried rose petal in scents and flavours. Far out, such a ripping, ripping drink." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

This is the style of Langhe Nebbiolo I have been looking for for years: a lighter and younger Nebbiolo with no oak as was traditional in this area ( we are in Roero, Langhe) according to some books from the 1800s. The soils here are sandier than in the southern part of Langhe and as a result, the wines have a little less shoulder but very pretty perfumes. This Nebbiolo goes under an 8 days maceration in cement with very few pumps over, in order to avoid too much extraction; then finishes to ferment and age in cement.


Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Nebbiolo
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 93
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2021
Closure DIAM Cork

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