Wine of the Day, No. 47

I needed a lively, flavorful yet spare red wine to drink with a pasta dish made rich with guanciale and lots of Pecorino cheese. I found what I

was looking for in the Vietti Nebbiolo Perbacco 2012, Langhe, Piedmont. Made by Luca Corrado, the estate's fifth-generation owner, the wine serves as a kind of cadet version of Vietti's Barolo Castiglione. The vi…