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Piedmont, Italy
Vietti Barolo pre arrival offer August 2025
The Pre arrival offer at 20% off on orders of 3 bottles minimum applies until Monday 25th August and payment is required up front.
Please note some wines may sell out before then. Stock is due at the start of September. Please email info@fivewaycellars.com.au to place an order.
These wines are keenly sought around the world.
Top producers make good to very good wines virtually every harvest, but exceptional wines emerge from exceptional years, and 2021 is one such year!
A mild, wet winter set things up beautifully, replenishing water reserves for what became a dry growing season. The summer was warm rather than hot, and as a result the harvest of all the varieties was of perfectly ripe and healthy berries. Vietti’s nebbiolo vintage began late September and lasted well into October, aided by lower temperatures and a marked diurnal shift from mid-September. 2021 was a year of remarkable, aided no doubt from a quality perspective than the below average yields.
With this offer there is another new wine to the range, this time not from nebbiolo but 2022 Timorasso Derthona Boscogrosso, from a 2 hectare single vineyard located at 310 metres, on the top of the hill that acts as a watershed between the municipalities of Monleale and Volpeglino, with west to south-west exposure.
Please also note that as of vintage 2021, Vietti are no longer using the word ‘Castiglione’ in association with their Barolo, hence Vietti Barolo replaces Vietti Barolo Castiglione, in name only. Importers notes.
Vietti Timorasso Derthona 2023
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $100.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $90.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $80.00
Also a yellow pale/silver hue, the 2023 Colli Tortonesi was raised in equal parts in
ceramic, stainless steel, and neutral large casks for 16 months on the lees and an
additional year in bottle. The aromatics are a bit more expressive in this vintage, with
notes of fresh peach, citrus blossoms, tropical fruit, and white grapefruit. The palate has
lovely concentration and freshness, with a medium-bodied frame and a good deal of
length. This lovely wine is showing well now and should also age well.
Drink 2025-2032. 92 Points, Jeb Dunnuck.
Vietti Timorasso Derthona ‘Boscogrosso’ 2022
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $150.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $135.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $120.00
The Vietti 2022 Colli Tortonesi Timorasso Derthona Boscogrosso represents a special selection of fruit from a hillside slope with southwest exposures on sandy soils. This is a generous expression of this promising grape, which has extra textural heft and layering in a hot vintage such as this. It shows a pretty sense of inner balance that could not have been easy to achieve. I tasted this wine months before its commercial release, and it had already started to flesh out. However, this is a white wine that you can easily set aside for another five years of bottle aging. 94 Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate.
Vietti Langhe Nebbiolo Perbacco 2022
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $70.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $63.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $56.00
Vietti Barolo 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $180.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $162.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $144.00
375ml & Magnums available
The 2021 Barolo is a superb entry-level Barolo from Vietti. Rich, deep and layered in the glass, the 2021 offers
tons of near- and medium-term appeal. The blend of sites is compelling. Dark red-toned fruit, spice, menthol, and liquorice are all beautifully amplified. In 2021, it approaches the level of the crus, and that is saying something. 94 Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate.
Vietti Barolo Lazzarito 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
southwestern exposures in a small amphitheater. The soils in this area are older and thus more evolved, but they always create wines of strong character. The Vietti 2021 Barolo Lazzarito is easy to identify thanks to its salty mineral finish, which is almost metallic in taste, and its bright hints of sweet rosemary and wild herb. These delicate high notes form pretty framing to a dark core of elegant fruit. The estate counts five vineyards in Serralunga d'Alba, but Lazzarito is the only MGA bottling. 97 Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate.
Vietti Barolo Brunate La Morra 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
Brunate is also one of my favorite wines from Vietti (and, boy, is it hard to choose favorites) thanks to that playful hint of fresh mint that I usually find, especially in the best vintages. You certainly get it in the 2021 Barolo Brunate, and although I'm not sure how long it will last as the wine evolves, my experience suggests it only gets stronger and more beautiful in time. Indeed, this vintage (with 23 days of skin maceration) shows exceptional depth and precision with aromas that go beyond the mint, spanning instead to grilled rosemary and Darjeeling tea. The wine shows excellent textural support and broad shoulders, followed by tannins that are both sweet and chalky. It shows profound generosity and depth. Brunate always has an intense, dark soul. 97+ Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate
Vietti Barolo Ravera Novello 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
You could argue that this is the wine with the fasting growing quality trajectory because this vineyard site is one of those rare places in the appellation that appears to improve despite (or more likely because of) a changing climate. Ravera enjoys an open panorama (at 400 to 440 meters in elevation) that extends to the snow-capped Alps and benefits from cooler air currents, coupled with an amazing quality of light that you notice with the naked eye. The 2021 Barolo Ravera saw its fruit harvested later than the other wines, on October 11th, and continued with a classic Vietti-style fermentation with 20-plus days of skin contact. Simply put, what Ravera offers is complexity (and strength) with hints of bergamot, citrus, herbs, mineral and salt over a tightly concentrated mouthfeel. The quality of the tannins and the freshness of this 2021 are impressive, and that citrusy note continues with tangerine skin and kumquat. 98+ Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate
Vietti Barolo Rocche di Castiglione Falletto 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
This is a serious beauty that reminds us of the brilliant work underway at this leading estate. Yes, ownership has changed over recent years, but this wine remains "Rocche-solid." From an epic vintage, the Vietti 2021 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a classic with those elegant mineral notes of glacial till and flake salt followed by carefully ripened fruit, blackcurrant and a finely tuned floral note of fragrant tea leaf that hits the high notes. The effect is ethereal but also precise. Fruit comes from two parcels, one planted in 1958 and the other in 1969, and the blend is half of each fermented together. Fruit was picked on October 1st, and the wine saw 24 days on the skins. The first year this wine was produced is 1961. The Rocche di Castiglione site has 35% sand with marl soils that continue to evolve, kicking out more new sand. Only 3,728 bottles exist, and that's the bad news.
Vietti Barolo Cerequio La Morra 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
Choices, choices, choices... The Vietti 2021 Barolo Cerequio is another classic from this over-performing estate. This parcel was purchased in 2018 from the Chiarlo family (the Krause family acquired Vietti in 2016), and although the location is La Morra, the site behaves more like Sarmassa in Barolo, creating wines with a firm, tight entry and good structure. You could say that it has a nervous character now in its adolescence, and of course we expect it to smooth out and find harmony with time. Fruit was harvested on September 30th, and the wine sees 27 days of extended skin maceration. Compared to Brunate, which is always darker in character, the Cerequio is lighter and brighter with pretty primary fruit. 96 Points. Moncia Larner, The Wine Advocate
Vietti Barolo Monvigliero Verduno 2021
SINGLE BOTTLE PRICE: $650.00 DOZEN BOTTLE PRICE: $585.00
SPECIAL 20% BOTTLE PRICE: $520.00
The learning curve in Monvigliero is always steep (first vintage 2018) , or so most winemakers tell me, because very few can go to 100% whole-cluster fermentation. Indeed, the 2021 Barolo Monvigliero sees 60% whole clusters. The Vietti team is experienced, and this wine is pristine. This vintage was harvested on September 30th, and maceration was a bit shorter, at 20 days. The wine shows a delicate film of pink salt with garden herbs, lemon leaves and spring flowers. It is a wine of extreme elegance, but I find that this vintage is especially Mediterranean in character. 97 Points. Moncia Larner, The W