Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2008 CS20230901 sandy limestone lending elegance and

sandy limestone lending elegance and perfume

fun and refreshing

with a mineral core that enhances its structure

Thirteen years on

Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2008 CS20230901 sandy limestone lending elegance andSeventeen years of cellar time and the wine is just hitting its stride. Giuseppe Cortese has farmed in Rabaj Barbaresco's most aristocratic cru, alongside Asili and Martinenga for generations, and the family approach is unwaveringly traditional: south facing calcareous marl, vines pushing seventy years old, extended levage in large neutral Slavonian casks. The 2008 vintage was a classical, structured Piedmont year, and time has done what time does to