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Langhe DOC

The flexible regional DOC that lets Barolo and Barbaresco producers bottle declassified nebbiolo, experimental blends, and whites. Langhe Nebbiolo is the important one: often young-vine or declassified Barolo fruit, released early, with cherry, rose, tar and softer tannin than the DOCGs, a genuine bargain in good years. Langhe Rosso covers everything from Barbera-Nebbiolo blends to Gaja's famous Cabernet and Nebbiolo cuvées, and Langhe Chardonnay and Nascetta are the top whites of the area. Quality tracks the producer.

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Produttori del Barbaresco
Langhe Nebbiolo
Declassified Barbaresco from the great cooperative, Vias import; cherry, rose, tar, real tannin for the money.
$24 to $30Wine-Searcher
G.D. Vajra
Langhe Nebbiolo
Barolo-village fruit, perfumed and precise, one of the most reliable Langhe Nebbiolos in the US.
$26 to $32Wine-Searcher
Gaja
Langhe Rosso Sperss
Serralunga nebbiolo that Gaja bottled as Langhe for two decades; tar, dried cherry, mint, immense structure, now back under Barolo but older vintages carry the Langhe label.
$250 to $320Wine-Searcher