Thought I’d start #drinksatantonios with this white wine made from Nascetta by Diego Conterno in Monforte d’Alba. It’s a luminous green-gold and has refreshing aromatics with grapefruit and other citrus fruit to the fore. It’s rounded out by lightly toasted almonds and it’s fresh on the palate but with nice weight and body. A really good example of this little known grape! — 6 years ago
Purchased at winery. €18. — 7 years ago
Piedmont wine tasting: medium straw, glints of green, medium+ viscosity • aromatic, grapefruit, tropical fruit, lees, white pepper, white flowers• medium+ body, nice texture and weight, wet gravel, 13.5% ABV • made from 100% Nascetta, aged 6 months in stainless steel with frequent lees stirring • $38 — 7 years ago
The nose showed hints of raw almond with young mango, peach, apple and crushed stone. On the palate, I found a fresh and almost savory expression. It lacked the fruit concentration of other Nascetta, but made up for it with structure, pretty inner florals, a spritz of mineral-infused lime and salinity. The finish was long with saline-minerality and residual notes of lime. Wow! #collisioni17 #Nascetta — 9 years ago
An indigenous white from Langhe, I think this is my first time trying Nascetta. In the Nebbiolo dominated Piedmont, that’s not surprising. My Barolo meter is well tuned. My Nascetta palate.... not so.
I’m blown away here, though. This bottle is shockingly sharp with a creamy twist at the end that harmonizes the intense tropical fruits with a (non-sweet) honey glaze.
It’s that moment in the evening when you sit down on the couch after a long productive day. Self satisfied comfort wine. — 6 years ago
Nice obscure varietal from piedmont...Chablis-like in weight and mineral just a touch more citrus — 8 years ago
Bright, minerally blend of Riesling and Nascetta. At Eataly in Chicago. — 10 years ago
Pretty, herbs , nepitella, good following — 10 years ago
Yummy lighter orange, and 1L — 5 years ago
Floral and oaky pet nat — 6 years ago
Mag. I’ll admit to never having tried or even heard of Nascetta before. It does taste very Piedmont, somewhat akin to a Roero Arneis maybe. Clean and refreshing, melon and a hint of tropical fruit, a little fresh grass, a saline or flinty quality. Seems like it could be pretty interesting with age — 8 years ago
Bright like Vognier, oily in composition, butterly like Chardonnay. Red Wine lover White wine in Burolo — 10 years ago
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Acidic. Melon and dragonfruit. My first taste of Piedmonte’s Nascetta grape. — 3 years ago