It has very good balance and length and is an exceptional value. Marco Porello 2015 Arneis Classico Roero ($13) 89+ A blend of grapes from both Canale and Vezza d’Alba, Porello’s entry level Arneis is crisp and fresh with notes of pear and minerals and a hint of apricot.
A vineyard blend matured 12 months in 25 hl Slavonian oak botti. Marco Porello 2014 Nebbiolo d’Alba ($16) 89 An attractive, easy drinking Nebbiolo showing notes of red berries and cherry fruit with floral and flinty mineral notes It’s well balanced and superb value. The Vezza d’Alba vineyard has sandy, limestone soils and is home to the single vineyard parcel Camestrì. The Canale vineyard has dense marine, clay soils and two single vineyard parcels-Filatura and Toretta. Barbera and Nebbiolo are grown in Canale, while Arneis and Nebbiolo grow in Vezza d’Alba. Marco has 15 hectares of vines located in two of Roero’s twenty-three villages, Canale and Vezza d’Alba (see map below), and in some of the region’s most highly regarded lvineyard ocations, including Mombirone in Canale and Tanone in Vezza d’Alba (shown here). We find his wines to be very well made and exceptionally good values. We recently met Marco at a Consorzio of Roero trade tasting held in New York and subsequently tasted through his portfolio with his importer in the Washington DC area. Roero was previously an inland sea, which explains the marine sediments that influence its wines. Marco Porello (shown here) is the third generation of his family to craft wines from the family estate in Roero, located northwest of Alba on the left bank of the Tanaro River in the Piedmont.
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