Giulia Negri, Barolo Serradenari, 2016 palinkerie holiday box and food-friendly in the way

and food-friendly in the way Aligoté is supposed to be — only now from California

and different from the rounder whites of the Côte de Beaune's southern reaches

gentle daily pump-overs over a four-week ferment

no heavy extraction

Giulia Negri, Barolo Serradenari, 2016 palinkerie holiday box and food-friendly in the waySerradenari is the hill Giulia Negri grew up on and the name of her estate, and it happens to sit among the highest vineyard ground in all of Barolo. Altitude does specific things to Nebbiolo: it slows ripening, holds acidity, and trades some of the appellation's famous muscle for perfume and precision. This is the estate's flagship and it drinks like it, with rose petal and red cherry up front, wild herbs and crushed stone underneath, and tannins