(Image from Decanter Website)
There was this recent article introducing 2014 Piedmont white wines in Decanter. Although I had only tasted one of the recommended wines from another vintage, I had actually sampled all the interesting indigenous grape varieties these wines were made from. Actually, I was unsure about the Morasso from Cascina Montagnola, but that turned out to be made from Timorasso, which I had tasted before. Gavi (from Cortese) and Roero Arneis are probebly not unfamiliar to many, but Timorasso, Favorita and Erbaluce are probably rather unknown.
Two grapes were featured three times each Arneis and Erbaluce, and it was one of the latter that I had tried - the Orsolani La Rustia Erbaluce di Caluso (though of the 2010 vintage). You can look up the Decanter article for their notes of the 2014 vintage, but as for the wine I tasted in the 2012 Wine Fair, it was a straw yellow with a crisp nose hinting of citrus notes. These notes carried through to the palate, evolving into a lemony acid backbone. The article suggested their selection are all food friendly wines, and I can think of many a fish dish which would go with the wine I had tasted some 3 years ago.
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