Name Spanna Campi Raudii
Vintage 1958
Producer Antonio Vallana
Appelation None
Grapes Nebbiolo, Aglianico
Alc./vol. 13%
Other info Campi Raudii is a single-vineyard, today within the borders of the Gattinara-area.
Price 261,25 Dkr.


First of six pristine bottles stored under perfect conditions I managed to buy. This wine had a deep brick-red colour with a deep core and a lightly browning rim. Surprisingly dark, looks much younger. Nice nose of leather, cherries, spices and a touch of floral notes. Full-bodied and acidic wine in the mouth. More fruity with hints of cherries. Some leathery and complex notes. Some tannins in the back. Very good wine, but not much nebbiolo-like. Also strangely unevolved fruit. The reputation of these wines as ageworthy are well justified. I will give the next bottle a little more aeration-time.

Arnt Egil Nordlien
Tasting note: Feb-05


The second bottle was far better than the first. Aired in a Barolo-decanter for 4 hours. Showing a deep red colour, still looks much younger than it's age. The nose is very fine indeed, showing a lot of tobacco and dried roses. Fine high notes. Complex, some leather. Full-bodied in the mouth, almost some fatness in the entrance from the fruit-concentration. Here it also shows a lot of tobacco, perhaps a little more like a Valtellina, but with fine hints of roses and quite elegant. Medium acids (perhaps a hot year?) and some tannins in the back. Fully mature and on top now. Will last. Great wine.

Arnt Egil Nordlien
Tasting note: Nov-05


Deep brick red colour. Quite deep for nebbiolo. Fine nose with lots of fruit-notes. Perfume, floral high-notes. Some earthiness. Coffee. Powerful wine in the mouth with lots of fruit. Some cherries, coffee, earth and fine floral high-notes. Fine acidity and round tannins in the back. Good length. Another great bottle of this wine. Altough perhaps a tad more on the earthy side. Drinking well now, will last.

Arnt Egil Nordlien
Tasting note: Jan-09



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