Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2008 published_online If you like the idea

If you like the idea of "fancy Champagne" without the fancy price (or the fancy attitude)

celebrations

a few years in the cellar will only add to its complexity

and honeyed sweetness

Giuseppe Cortese, Barbaresco Rabaja, 2008 published_online If you like the ideaSeventeen 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