structured crowd-pleaser with a genuinely good story behind it
It delivers elegant almond cream
and Vertus itself—hence the name “Longitude
this is structure—decades of aging potential built in
with fine-grained tannins and the kind of fresh acidity that lets you actually finish a glass with food
Lorenzo Accomasso, Dolcetto d'Alba, 2021 so022425 bordeaux 2022s structured crowd-pleaser with a genuinelyThe last Dolcetto Lorenzo Accomasso ever made before his death in August 2025 at age 91. The 2021 vintage in La Morra was cooler and more classical than the warm 2020, and it shows in the bottle: a Dolcetto with snap and tension, a real backbone of acidity, and the savory bitter almond grip that marks Accomasso's hand from the first sip. As always with this tiny, traditionalist estate, everything is done by feel no shortcuts, no industrial yeast, no