Filippino Elio Barbaresco San Cristoforo Riserva 10 Anni 2015

The best grapes are delicately pressed and the stalks are removed. The must ferments in stainless steel vats at a controlled temperature of 26°C with a maceration of 25 days. After racking, the new wine is put into 15-25 hl Slavonian oak casks for long months. Next, it is bottled and left to age for at least 7 years. The tenth year the wine is ready for the market.

The great red wines of Piedmont and their great grape Nebbiolo age out spectacularly well developing incredible complexities in the bottle with time. Infact the finest, oldest red wines I have ever tasted were not from Bordeaux or Burgundy but from Piedmont. The Riserva bottlings from Barbaresco and Barolo are the finest possible expression that a winery can make: selected from the finest possible grapes, only made in the finest vintages and aged longer at the wineries than any other wine. Elio Fillipino takes this one step further making a wine from the best of the best that is released ten years after the wines vintage. They have been around since the early 1900’s. The wine is very hard to get but through the years has been one of the best Barbaresco’s i have tasted and able to offer. I have just got my hands on the 2015 Elio Fillipino Barbaresco Riserva 10 Anni and it’s a glorious wine. 2015 is a great vintage, 95pts Wine Spectator. The wine is sourced from the ‘San Cristoforo’ vineyard in Neive from perfect hillside exposure and the finest elevation of the slope. Wines that age at the winery in bottle for 7 years like this one are very rare and with the greatness of the finest Barbaresco’s results in a wine experience of the highest order. Treat yourself to this spectacular sensory experience. Taste the difference.