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“As I taste through these wines, it gives me enormous pleasure to reflect on the fact that 2017 was the last vintage touched by the hands of Domenico Clerico.” – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Less than $30? For a wine from the last vintage touched by a GIANT?!

Don’t take our word for it. Antonio Galloni sums it up. “Clerico will always be a Giant among Men.” Giant man, towering wines. Amongst a handful who helped elevate Barolo to new heights, “one of the elder statesmen of Barolo” as Decanter puts it.

Known for his single vineyard Barolos, Clerico was also an iconoclast – what you are looking at is the first ‘Super Piemonte’ - a wine that breaks the rules in all the right ways.

Wine Advocate explains, the Arte bottling is, “A crowd-pleasing blend of Nebbiolo (about 90 percent) and Barbera that drinks sumptuously even at this young age. It shows the important structure, acidity and promptness of fruit for a steady evolution. Many of Clerico’s best wines are engineered in this fashion: Although they taste beautiful straight out of the bottle, they generously reward those who wait.”

And don’t let the price tag fool you. This bottle is made from fruit from Clerico’s prized single vineyards - Ginestra, Pajana, and Mosconi. Fruit that in the single vineyard bottlings commands $125 OR MORE!

Wine Spectator clarifies, “Clerico, who considered himself more a grapegrower than a winemaker, made rich, dense Barolos from his 52 acres of vines in Monforte. His Barolos from Ciabot Mentin and Pajana in the Cru Ginestra vineyard expressed their sites, showing purity of fruit, minerality and the structure for aging. In 2011, Clerico’s Barolo Ciabot Mentin Ginestra 2006 was Wine Spectator’s No. 8 wine of Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of the Year. Clerico took over the winery from his father in 1976. In 1977, he purchased his first vineyard parcel in Bussia, called Bricotto. Ciabot Mentin, Pajana and Mosconi followed… He had very little money in the early days. To age his wines, he bought dismantled casks from Germany, cleaned them and put them back together. But Clerico’s focus was always his vineyards, where he was often found and where he employed organic viticulture. ‘In the last years Domenico was mainly working in the vineyard, because it was the job he loved the most, leaving the management of the cellar to his collaborators,’ said a statement released by the winery.”

If that’s not enough, none other than Robert Parker himself called Clerico “One of the most gifted winemakers in Piedmont… these are wines of extraordinary richness, amazing aromatics, and sensual personalities that satiate both the hedonistic and the intellectual senses.”

This is not a wine pitch, it’s an offer in memoriam. Grab a case, have some friends over, maybe shave some Alba truffles over a simple yet scrumptious Piemontese recipe such as a Sfoglia with 40 egg yolks to pair, and toast to Domenico’s legacy.

And what a delicious legacy it is!