Curto Marco di Nadia Curto Langhe Rosso, 2023

I listed above the vintage as 2023 because that is how it was sold at Saratoga Wine Exchange. Actually, though, there is no vintage date on the label, confirming that it is a wine for current, every day enjoyment rather than for aging. And it is indeed a very good wine for that purpose; we love it.

The wine is a blend of Dolcetto, picked in September, and Nebbiolo, picked in mid to late October, fermented separately and then blended in the Spring. Aging is in stainless steel for both grapes.

Medium color with some Nebbiolo orange tints. Beautiful ripe fruit smells. Donna thinks apple pie; I think cherry pie. We both get cinnamon and other baking spices. Lovely fruit flavors but with the tannic structure of Nebbiolo. If I tasted this blind, I might have tagged it as a Pinot Noir from northern California or Oregon. Wonderful texture. But as an every day wine, it is also like a very good Cotes du Rhone. Delicious to drink young but with the structure of a more serious wine.