Massimo Rivetti Barbaresco Froi 2017

Barbaresco doesn’t get prettier than this! 93 POINTS! The Rivettis are some of our favorite folks in Piemonte, and this gorgeously perfumed nebbiolo is seductive and complex – at a level far beyond our delicious price! The warm vintage of 2017 has this singing right now, and better still – with FREE SHIPPING on three...this can be yours in time for the Holidays!

Beautiful, perfumed bouquet of roses, violets, lilacs, and more, followed by red plums, sweet pomegranate, molasses, myriad spices, black tea, and grilled sweet herbs – this is a mouthful of vinous perfection. Piemonte nebbiolos can be tightly wound and closed in their youth, but not so here! Generous, friendly, elegant – just so good, so light on the palate, in a restrained Burgundy of yesteryear kind of way, with enormous flavors and persistence. This will hold for a decade plus, but at this price, why wait? What a treat!  

“Froi” is the name for the vineyards surrounding a central farmhouse on the hill of Serraboella, one of the top sites for world-class nebbiolo in the revered Barbaresco commune. The Rivetti family’s commitment to organic and biodynamic farming has made for a spectacular wine – one that perfectly captures the “feminine” essence of Barbaresco, despite the ripe and warm character of the 2017 vintage. Barbaresco is one of the great regional expressions on earth, and with our price, there is no better time to try the Rivetti family’s awesome Froi bottling!