La Cantina di Cunéaz Nadir, “Les Gosses” Rosso

Today’s wine is the ultimate labor of love—not just for its maker, Nadir Cunéaz, who crafts tiny quantities of wine in a single room in his house, but for its importer, Rosenthal Wine Merchant, whose motivation for bringing wines like Cunéaz's across the ocean is certainly not commercial. It’s at least partly sentimental, but it’s also about exposing an authentic, handmade wine of place to a broader audience, to remind us of what’s special about wine in the first place.SommSelect subscribers recognized this straight away when we offered a Pinot Noir from Cunéaz not long ago—a small quantity of which quickly sold out—and we’re grateful to have received a substantial allocation (relatively speaking, of course) of today’s lip-smacking red blend, “Les Gosses.” Since his first ‘commercial’ releases in 2009, Cunéaz has built up a small collection of vineyards in the Alpine foothills of Valle d’Aosta, in Italy’s northwestern-most corner. Those holdings total all of one hectare. His total annu