Wine friends, 

This is the 16th of 17 Open Tuesday offers this fall season. After today, there will be only one more fall wine opportunity.

There’s still time to fill your cases from the remaining and previous offers. If you need help selecting, just send me an email.

Was this one of your favorite Open Tuesday wines from the fall 2023 season?

If it was, you are not alone. The positive feedback about this wine from OT members has been overwhelming. 

Today we’re offering the next vintage of Benotti's Roero, the superb 2021. It is from a slightly better vintage than last year’s 2020 (check out Wine Enthusiast’s vintage chart), and while the two wines are similar in many ways, the 2021 is the more elegant wine. I especially love how it seems to glide its way over your palate. 

Many Italian wine lovers believe top tier Roero producers like Benotti are making Nebbiolo wines that rival those from Barbaresco and Barolo, which are Roero’s more famous neighbors to the immediate south.

Open Tuesday has the lowest price in North America for this wine. (The only other online retailer has it for around $38.) 

Why not judge for yourself?

Rosavica Benotti - 2021 Roero DOCG

Rosavica Benotti’s 2021 Roero is an elegant and ageworthy medium- to full-bodied organic red wine made in Priocca, Roero, just north of Alba, in the Piedmont region. This wine strikes an ideal balance between its savory and sweeter elements. The succulent fruit is generous and open, yet a firm undercurrent of minerality keeps the wine focused and highly re-drinkable. The expressive fruit and prominent notes of violet, cedar, and bright herbs exemplify the very best of Roero Nebbiolo.

To order, just click the blue link above and follow the prompts.

Above all else, owner Ermanno Cordero’s objective is to make wines that tend to disappear at the table. Bevibilitá (drinkability) is the ideology behind his winemaking. His second priority is to make wines that reflect the unique qualities of the Roero region. While some Roero producers try to emulate the wines in neighboring Barolo or Barbaresco, Ermano believes the sandier soils of Roero are better suited for making juicy and delicious wines that are ready to drink at a fairly young age. To Ermanno, “Roero is a brother to Barbaresco and Barolo, not an imitator.”

The Rosavica Benotti winery is in Priocca, Roero, just north of Alba, in the Piedmont region. Ermanno only produces about 15 thousand bottles of wine per year.

Roero is the geographic wine region to the immediate north and northwest of Alba. The Barolo region is immediately south of Alba.

This wine pairs beautifully with Piedmont staple tajarin al ragu alla langarola (tagliatelle-like pasta with meat sauce).

Wines purchased through Open Tuesday will be sent directly from Italy, by air, in a temperature controlled environment. No hot warehouses, and no retail shelves.

Happy Tuesday,

Chris

If you have any questions or feedback, please email us: [email protected].  

Receive a $25 credit for every referred member after the purchase of their first bottle.

How it works: 

After clicking one of the links above, you’ll be able to request 1-12 bottles. Actually, that’s all you have to do!

About a week later, when we close the offer, you’ll get an email confirming how many bottles we allocated to your account. We will charge you when the wines are allocated.

We’ll do our best to allocate all the bottles you request. When there are more requests than bottles available, we’ll allocate one bottle to all requesting members before allocating a second bottle to anyone. We want as many members as possible to try these wines.

This is the 16th offer of our 2024 fall season. In September and October, we’re sending 17 wine offers to Open Tuesday list members.

We ship in increments of 12. If you don’t have an increment of 12 at the end of this fall season, we can hold your wines until the spring offer season.

Wines offered in the fall will ship in November for $5 per bottle (if you have an increment of 12.) This is about the same as the price to ship coast-to-coast within the U.S. – but our wines come directly from Italy.

Once your payment method is on file, you can make future requests with just a few clicks from the offer email. If you don’t have a card on file, you can add one during your first order. Your personal financial information is protected by Stripe.

Chris MacLean

Rob Genova

Open Tuesday Wines S.r.l.s.