[Cornell Wine] 2001 Barbaresco Futures

[Michael Beard]

CORNELL WINE COMPANY

PRODUTTORI del BARBARESCO 2001 FUTURES

Forget what The Wine Spectator said about the 2000 vintage in  
Piemonte, 2001 is a much better vintage combining some of the fruit  
forwardness of the 2000 vintage with the classic structure of the  
1999 vintage.  While the 2000 is a good “restaurant vintage” (i.e.  
early drinking), many of the wines will never develop the  
complexities that you expect in great Nebbiolo wines.  Personally, I  
think 1999 was a fabulous vintage, but many of the wines need a lot  
of patience.  My rule is “drink the 2000s, then the 2001s, and then  
the 1999s”.
The Produttori will be releasing their “single vineyard” 2001s in  
January 2007 - this is much later than normal.  The reason is that  
there will be no “single vineyard” wines from 2002 and 2003, and the  
2004s will not be released until January 2009.  The Produttori want  
to make sure there is always some of these wines on the market.
Recently I had the pleasure of tasting all the nine Crus with Aldo  
Vacca the Export Director for the Produttori.  He is very excited  
about the 2001 vintage, and having tasted the wines, I agree with  
him.  I did not buy any 2000s for my own cellar, but I’ll be buying  
the 2001s.  The big surprise to me was that the normal reticent Crus  
such as Montifico and Montestefano were showing lots of opulent fruit  
at this early stage, whereas the normally forward Ovello was somewhat  
tighter than normal.

I’m now accepting futures orders on the following basis (order forms  
are available in the shop – but you can email your requests and fill- 
in an order form later) and orders are requested by the middle of  
June (earlier ordering offers a better chance of availability):

1.     Some of the wines are in short supply and I will not know my  
allocation until mid-July.  The Montefico is in very short supply and  
the Asili and Rabajá are in short supply.  I’ll allocate orders in  
the sequence received.
2.     This year the Produttori are NOT guaranteeing the exchange  
rate and current pricing is based on $1.25 US to €1.00.  If the local  
distributor increases my cost, I’ll pass through that increase to my  
customers with no profit margin added.  This extra, if any, will be  
paid when the wine arrives.  If by chance the dollar makes comeback  
and my cost is reduced, I’ll refund the savings to you.

3.     Payment is in full with a valid credit card (or cash if you  
prefer!).  However no credit card will be charged, or checks cashed,  
until I know what my allocation will be.

4.     Orders can be for single bottles.  Case orders, mixed or full,  
will receive a 10% discount off these futures prices.

PRICING

ASILI or RABAJÁ $38.00/bottle
MOCCAGATTA, MONTEFICO, MONTESTEFANO, OVELLO, PAJÉ, PORA and RIO SORDO  
$34.00/bottle

Magnums are available of MONTESTEFANO, OVELLO and RABAJÁ at twice the  
750ml cost.

Mick
Cornell Wine Company
(503) 531-3981
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