Le Piane Boca DOC, 2017

Le Piane Boca DOC, 2017

Regular price $78.00

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.

  • Dry
  • Light Bodied
  • Medium Tannins
  • High Acid

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PAIRS well WITH

  • Red Meat
  • Poultry
  • Grilled Foods

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From our Importer: Nowhere else in Italy is a single producer so uniquely, so singularly tied to the fame of a DOC zone. Were it not for a chance encounter with Antonio Cerri’s wines three decades ago, Cristoph Kunzli would not have embarked on his project and in all likelihood, Boca would have drifted into pure history from its stalwart perch in nearly total obscurity. There was hardly any wine being bottled when he arrived. The little that was being produced was mostly in cask as there was no market for it.

Thankfully that has all changed. Alto Piemontese wines have become a “thing”, so to say. Le Piane’s Boca has become recognized not only as the Benchmark wine of Alto Piemonte, but as one of the great Nebbiolo based wines of Italy and in doing so has become a beacon of light for the whole zone. Producers are bottling again, doing a better job with their wines, even replanting vineyards. We are no longer the only ones importing from Boca, and folks don’t call me crazy any longer for deciding to import these wines nearly 2 decades ago. Well.... at least not for THAT reason. Boca is mostly Nebbiolo but also includes 15% Vespolina, a variety according to Cristoph, even more finicky than Nebbiolo. He says it would be easier and cheaper to make it from pure Nebbiolo, but is convinced the Vespolina in proper measure, simply makes the wine better.

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