2023 Anas-Cetta Langhe Nascetta di Novello
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The 2023 Nascetta Del Comune Di Novello Anas-Cetta was aged in equal parts stainless steel and 15-hectoliter, untoasted Slavonian oak barrels, then blended prior to bottling. It boasts a bright yellow/straw color in the glass and is exuberant on the nose, with savory complexity and attractive notes of flinty reduction, white grapefruit, poached pear, beeswax, petrol, and wet stones. The acidity is modest but accented with white pepper spice and salinity that brings wonderful energy to the wine, along with a gentle glycerin-rich texture. It may well be the best expression of Nascetta that I have tasted from Nadia Cogno and Valter Fissore, and it certainly has the potential to improve with aging. Drink 2025-2037. Each of the Elvio Cogno wines for this report were tasted at the estate, above the vines of Ravera in Novello. Sadly, one of my favorite wines in the range will be no more after this year, as the pre-phylloxera Barbera vines are no longer able to produce enough, and they will be replanting the vineyard.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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This is always a terrific white and a natural palate-resetter from this mostly red wine region. The Elvio Cogno 2023 Langhe Nascetta del Comune di Novello Anas-Cëtta has a beautiful bouquet with a note of grilled pineapple that you might get in Hawaiian food, along with orchard fruit, crushed stone, wild sage and wildflowers with yellow petals. I even get a hint of bacon smoke and flint stone. The wine ferments partially in steel and partially in oak. It closes with tart freshness. 18,000 bottles were produced.