The Faset Barbaresco is the closest wine in David’s bottlings to Barolo in style. 2019 was the first year David has bottled Faset as a single Cru. David describes Faset as having an ‘unparalleled richness’, a trait shared due to the similar soils with Asili, Rabaja and Rio Sordo; "Faset has the densest biggest structure of the Cru’s I make, more Barolo than Barbaresco.”
In the review tasting of the three wines this Cru definitely has the most fruit and density to the wine, highly aromatic, so much classic tar and roses in this wine. Faset is on the same soil as Roncaglie but is just slightly cooler, and usually picked later than Roncaglie.
This wine is 100% destemmed. Open ferment. Pressed to barrel. Elevage in old oak, over 10 years old, 300ltr barrels. Barbaresco can only be released on the 3rd January following harvest, giving the wine approx. 27 months total aging. David ages his wines for 24 months in barrel (legally it only needs be 12 as a minimum) then 3 months in bottle.
The 2021 vintage is one that will likely go down as better in Barbaresco. It was overall a very drought but not hot vintage; and while it was rainy in France and Germany, in Piedmont’s Langa it was actually less rainy but colder than usual. Otherwise, the 2021 vintage was a year of good production as opposed to 2019 (very classic wines), and 2020 (wines with more fruit but less acidity than those of 2021). Fletcher asserts his 2021 wines have more structure than his 2020s, but all are equally fresh. The best of both worlds.
The Faset Barbaresco is the closest wine in David’s bottlings to Barolo in style. 2019 was the first year David has bottled Faset as a single Cru. David describes Faset as having an ‘unparalleled richness’, a trait shared due to the similar soils with Asili, Rabaja and Rio Sordo; "Faset has the densest biggest structure of the Cru’s I make, more Barolo than Barbaresco.”
In the review tasting of the three wines this Cru definitely has the most fruit and density to the wine, highly aromatic, so much classic tar and roses in this wine. Faset is on the same soil as Roncaglie but is just slightly cooler, and usually picked later than Roncaglie.
This wine is 100% destemmed. Open ferment. Pressed to barrel. Elevage in old oak, over 10 years old, 300ltr barrels. Barbaresco can only be released on the 3rd January following harvest, giving the wine approx. 27 months total aging. David ages his wines for 24 months in barrel (legally it only needs be 12 as a minimum) then 3 months in bottle.
The 2021 vintage is one that will likely go down as better in Barbaresco. It was overall a very drought but not hot vintage; and while it was rainy in France and Germany, in Piedmont’s Langa it was actually less rainy but colder than usual. Otherwise, the 2021 vintage was a year of good production as opposed to 2019 (very classic wines), and 2020 (wines with more fruit but less acidity than those of 2021). Fletcher asserts his 2021 wines have more structure than his 2020s, but all are equally fresh. The best of both worlds.
