Le Piane Boca DOC, 2017

This wine is made of 85% Nebbiolo and 15% Vespolina. Cooler temperatures, rustic tannin, and beguiling fruit send this bottling straight to the cellar for potentially decades of development...or, with a decant, RIGHT to the dinner table tonight with braised beef short ribs. Boca is one of the oldest DOC's in Northern Italy, and is tucked into the northeastern-most corner of Piedmont. In the early 1900's, the region's financial efforts left Boca for the more southerly textile mills, and Boca's vineyards almost went extinct. It wasn't until the late 1990s that the less than 10 hectares of Boca vines left caused concern and sparked a revival.