Our first-ever Piedmont Offer - The Wines of Aurelio Settimo includes:

• 2 Bottles of Aurelio Settimo Dolcetto d’Alba 2021
• 2 Bottles of Aurelio Settimo Langhe Nebbiolo 2021
• 1 Bottle of Barolo
• 1 Bottle of Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata

Retail $253.99 - Our price $199 for six $389 for 12

From my incredible meeting with Tiziana Settimo in 2023, tasting with her in her cozy barrel room just outside La Morra in Italy's famed Langhe wine region, I was inspired to offer our first Barolo Wines in company history. As some of you know, I have worked off and on in Italy my entire wine career. After visiting most of the wine regions of Italy, we settled on Piedmont. One day, we will build a home and live out our days, basking in a white truffle-scented head trip and drinking Nebbiolo and Dolcetto until our teeth are stained and our souls are cleansed. So, you have to believe that for this to be our inaugural offer, we mean business here.

In 1943, Aurelio's parents settled in the hamlet of Annunziata in an old farmhouse built at the end of the 19th century. They sold all their grapes to local wineries until the late 1950s, when they started to bottle some wines themselves, and by 1974, they were utterly estate bottled. Aurelio's daughter, Tiziana, is the seventh-generation winemaker running the estate. The wines are made traditionally, with lengthy fermentations on the skins and aging in 2500-liter bottles and cement tanks. The single vineyard Rocche dell'Annunziata bottling of Barolo is a wonder, one of the region’s great wines. 

- Michael Housewright

Aurelio Settimo Langhe Nebbiolo 2021

$32.99 Value

This "baby Barolo" is made from young Nebbiolo plantings at the famous Rocche dell’Annunziata vineyard adjacent to the winery. In recent years, this wine has taken on a more serious tone with a marked increase in depth and richness. This reminds me of Barolo but without the heavy dose of tannins accompanying those wines when they are young. I would put this beauty against many wines at double the price and still open this one when I need a guaranteed show-stopper for dinner guests. This is a new stock item for us, and we are thrilled. 

Aurelio Settimo Dolcetto d’Alba 2021

$23.99 Value

We fell for the wines of Tiziana Settimo while tasting along with her in her cozy barrel room just outside of La Morra in the famed Langhe wine region of Italy. Dolcetto, for me, is the most complete wine for a weeknight meal from all of Italy. It sings with Pizza and holds its own with burgers, BBQ chicken, and even a simple salad. The wine is redolent with fleshy grapes, white pepper, violets, and plenty of easy, juicy happiness. Tiziana is a happy person, which comes out in all her wines. We are so pleased to launch the Settimo brand here at CB. 

Barolo 2019

Value of: $59.99

 Already noted as a top contender for the vintage of the century (thus far), there is no better year to launch the CB foray into Barolo than this year. The wine is big, bursting with aromatics of rose petals, orange bread, classic blacktop, and all kinds of hillside herbs one finds along the winding rods of the Langhe. The region is among the most beautiful places on earth (maybe the most attractive for me), and this Barolo is grown along the lovely winding curves near the winery. There isn’t much on the market for the price that can hold its own here. This is NOT an entry-level wine. This is a world-class bottling that deserves your attention and patience. Give this at least six months if possible, but it will be better in five-plus years. 

2019 Barolo Rocche dell’ Annunziata

Value of: $79.99

The estate’s flagship wine and one of Italy's top vineyard sites. This is the best wine we have ever offered. And we only have nine bottles to sell. This pack is the only way to get yours, but you will not regret it. All of the power and herbs of the DOCG Barolo, but this hits differently.  It is a mountain road of aromatics, from fields of flowers, wet roads, and a driving beat of dark red fruit and forest berries that go on and on in the glass. I was slapped across the head with this wine when I tasted it at the winery. Tiziana kept referring to the arduous work it takes to harvest from this steep vineyard, and then she would laugh and call herself a jolly joker.  Believe me, this wine is no joke. It is a serious, collectible asset that will reward a patient drinker with a highlight of their wine consumption on any given day. I have been tasting wines from this region for over 30 years. This bottling, from this vintage, is among the best I have ever drunk for this price.