Barbera d’Alba – D.O.C.
Ruby red in colour with purple reflections, fruity hints edged by raspberry, currants and aromatic herbs with a spiced finish.
Well structured in taste, its aromatic ensemble is definitely well balanced. Its complexity makes it last more than 10 years.
NOTES
Colour: Ruby red in colour with purple reflections
Perfume: fruity hints edged by raspberry, currants and aromatic herbs with a spiced finish
Flavour: purrple reflections, fruity hints edged by raspberry, currants and aromatic herbs with a spiced finish. Well structured in taste, its aromatic ensemble is definitely well balanced
Best served at: 18 C
Food matches: its ideal approach is with white meat, red roasted and overcooked dishes, with truffles, cheeses and aged salami
VINEYARD
Height o.s.l.: 420 m
Sun exposure: our vineyards are situated on a ventilated and sunny all day long
Vines per hectare: 5000 vines per hectare
Farming: Gujot and a balanced dry pruning, a careful cure in the moment of greater vegetative development and a radical thinning before and after the beginning of the ripening, manually executed, allow a close care of a qualitative control. The mechanized part of the job concerns exclusively the treatments (copper sulphate and pit sulfur) and the control of the grass growth.
Soil: sand 27%, limo 51%, clay 22%
Surface: The vineyard extends on an area of more one hectare
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Harvest: october
Vinifcation: in steel vats for ten days of maceration on peel
Fining: twelve months in wood and two months in bottle
Vintage: 2019
Aging: We bottle it in August without filtering it and we sell it after two months of refining in bottle.
Ageing potential: It must be drunk within 10 years depending on vintage year.
Alcohol vol. (%): 14%