Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 MSK_Champagne_Fall_2021 Accessible Pomerol from an established

Accessible Pomerol from an established Right Bank estate—plush Merlot-dominant blend with velvety texture at a gentler price point

The 2021 was a cool

a whisper of earthy spice

but here he crosses into neighboring Puligny-Montrachet for his lone premier cru

Cappellano, Barolo Pie Franco, 2011 MSK_Champagne_Fall_2021 Accessible Pomerol from an establishedThere is no Barolo quite like Cappellano's Pie Franco. In the late 1980s the iconoclastic Teobaldo Cappellano planted Nebbiolo Michet on its own ungrafted roots ("pie franco") in the Gabutti section of the Otin Fiorin vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, defying the conventional wisdom that phylloxera would kill it. The result is one of the most coveted and idiosyncratic wines in all of Piedmont, made traditionally with native yeasts and long aging in old