Favaro. Erbaluce di Caluso 'Tredicimesi' Vintage:2023

Favaro. Erbaluce di Caluso 'Tredicimesi' Vintage:2023Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG Grape: Erbaluce 2022 was a hot vintage and this wine stands apart with ripe white peach and orchard fruit, a generous underlying power enveloping this complex, focused dry white. I suspect it will peak a little earlier than usual, it is quite exquisite now. 13% Favaro producer page Erbaluce is amongst Piemontes wonderful, rare treasures. A grape variety gifted to humanity by Albaluce, daughter to the Sun and the Dawn, that now,

2024 was a year where 35% of the vintage was lost

made from French oak

with almond and crusty bread flavours

Producers had been put off by its susceptibility to disease and the absolute precision required for the harvest time (a day late and the acidity can be lost)

The vines were planted in 2006 on terraces between 150 and 180 metres with a south-west exposure

with regular punching of the cap

intense grapefruit flavours

Grapes: Corvina (70% ) Molinara (10%) Rondinella (20%)

Langhe Nebbiolo DOC

all the constituent parts that make it so special are present and in perfect balance

and it remains very rare

The wine is aged in barrique for 12 months