E. Molino Langhe Nebbiolo 2025 JULY42024 Vayots Dzor is the region

Vayots Dzor is the region where archaeologists dug up the world's oldest known winery

By fermenting and aging the wine totally in oak barrels

peppery bite takes over your first sip

this wine shows how Piedmont's greatest expression gains nuance and perfume over time rather than fruit power

Alto Piemonte sits two hours north of Barolo

E. Molino Langhe Nebbiolo 2025 JULY42024 Vayots Dzor is the regionSergio Molino spends his working life as a consulting enologist, shaping other people's wines all over Piedmont and Italy. This is where he makes his own: the family farm at Annunziata in La Morra, bottled under his father Ernesto's name. It's a genuinely tiny operation a couple of hectares under vine among the orchards and vegetable gardens, farmed organically for over a decade. The Nebbiolo gets a short maceration and mostly older wood, and it shows