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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - Visit to Giacomo Conterno: From 40 year old vines on a west facing monopole vineyard with largely calcareous soil. Bright red colour. Bright, attractive largely red fruited bouquet of red cherries, blackberries and violets. Delicious in the mouth, quite silky with pure, rich fruit flavours, particularly wild cherry. Tangy, fresh acidity. Roberto emphasised the wine's elegance noting 'limestone soil leads to minerality'. He said that 2013 and 2014 were excellent vintages for G Conterno: 'in '13 good quantities, in '14 lower'. (In fact, the yield for '14 for this wine was a low 30 HL per HA). Surprisingly, here the alcohol here the alcohol is 14.5%. I would have guessed much lower.

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