Pio Cesare 2017s Receive Exceptional Scores!

Pio Boffa was delighted to share with us the exceptional James Suckling scores his 2017s recently received!

2017 was both an extraordinary and exceptional vintage in the Langhe area producing high quality Barolo and Barbaresco of great elegance, concentration, power, structure and ageing potential. High temperatures did push the harvest earlier than usual but even though the vegetative cycle started much earlier than usual, it lasted for almost 185-190 days. In other “hot” vintages, such as 2003, 2007 and 2007, it only lasted no more than 170 days. This extra time and the Pio’s extremely meticulous green harvest made 2017 a year to be remembered for healthy grapes with high concentration of anthocyanins and polyphenols, rounder tannins and intense fruit.

Pio Cesare’s 5th generation: Federica and Cesare

Pio Cesare Barolo Mosconi 2017, 98 points

Subtle aromas of crushed stone and cherry with dried strawberry and white truffle, following through to a full body. Yet it is tight and very tannic with a fine-grained texture and a long, intense finish. A superb combination of structure and finesse. Very typical for Mosconi and the Ginestre area. Exceptional. Try after 2026.

James Suckling | 3.23.2021

Pio Cesare Barolo Ornato 2017, 98 points

Extremely perfumed with dark berries, cherries, strawberries and crushed stones. Full-bodied with chewy, polished tannins that are muscular. Fantastic structure to this young Barolo, as well as great length. It grows on the palate with ease. Truly impressive. Incredible. Try after 2025.

James Suckling | 3.23.2021

Pio Cesare Barbaresco il Bricco 2017, 97 points

Dried strawberries, ash, tar and dried flowers, such as roses, on the nose. Full-bodied and very tannic with powerful tannins and a savory finish. It’s spicy and intense at the end. A very structured red. Imposing tannins. Drink in 2024.

James Suckling | 3.23.2021

Mosconi, Monforte d’Alba

Pio Cesare Barolo 2017, 95 points

Aromas of dried orange, berry and hazelnut with hints of dried flowers. Tar, too. Full-bodied with chewy tannins and a juicy finish. The tannins are very fine and integrated. Chewy and encompassing flow across the palate. Very structured. Try after 2024.

James Suckling | 3.23.2021

Pio Cesare Barbaresco 2017, 95 points

Plenty of blackberry and black cherry on the nose with violet and lavender undertones. Full-bodied with powerful tannins that flow across the palate. Ever enveloping and imposing, yet polished and impressive. Drink after 2024.

James Suckling | 3.23.2021

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Champagne Louis Roederer crowned Most Admired Champagne Brand in the World

Champagne Louis Roederer are delighted and humbled to have been named as The Most Admired Champagne Brand in the World 2021 by Drinks International for the third time in four years. They first received the title in 2018 followed by 2020 and now 2021.

 

Louis Roederer are the only brand to boast a top three place for the last six consecutive years and as Giles Fallowfield notes “this is the sort of consistent excellence that Most Admired sets out to highlight” and to achieve it “producers have to be constantly striving for improvement”.  He goes on to acknowledge that “in champagne it takes a relatively long time before anything bears fruit, especially if it is in the vineyard”, and it is their concerted movement towards organic and biodynamic farming that has made such an impact at Roederer.  Chef de Cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon acknowledges that “consistently better quality fruit and juice is obtained from the biodynamically and organically farmed vines.”

 

By 2018 Roederer had converted 115ha of their 242ha vineyards to organic certification.  A further 115ha are in their final year of certification and the final 5 ha will be certified the following year.  Fallowfield notes that here “’hand in hand with nature’ is not the empty catch phrase one suspects it is for some large agricultural businesses”.

 

Richard Billett, MD of Maisons Marques et Domaines, the UK subsidiary of Champagne Louis Roederer commented “For Louis Roederer to be named the Most Admired Champagne Brand in the World again in 2021 is both humbling and gratifying, with peer acknowledgement recognising the maison’s philosophy, careful curation of the brand as well as its pioneering vision.”

 

The Drinks International Academy of professional wine experts boasts more than 300 members who have a specific interest in and professional knowledge of the champagne market.  They all vote in the definitive survey, which dictates the list of admired champagne brands.  The survey asks them to rate their top 5 brands based on the following criteria:

 

·       Quality and consistency of the brand, particularly their NV expression

·       The strength of the branding and marketing.

·       The price to quality ration across the range.

·       How much they respect and admire the champagne house.

·       How strong the brand is in relation to its peers within the champagne sector

 

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