Tasting Notes
Colour: ruby red when young with tendency to garnet red after ageing
Perfume: winey, intense, characteristic, delicate fragrance
Flavour: dry with a good body, accented acidity and soft tannins; full and harmonious flavour after adequate ageing.
Best served at: 18°C
Food matches: savoury pasta dishes, white and red meat
VINEYARD
Production area: Monforte d’Alba, Loc. Gramolere, Cuneo, Piemonte
Height o.s.l.: 450 mt
Sun exposure: south-west
Vines per hectare: 4600
Farming: Guyot
Kg of grapes per hectare: 85
Soil: mix (calcareous, clayey, sandy)
Year of implant: 1979 – 2004-2005
Surface: 1,20 ha
Wine per hectare: 59 q
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Harvest: handworking
Vinifcation: traditional/submerged-cap maceration with a daily pump-over
Fining: bottle
Vintage: 2006
Aging: Tonneaux 500 Lt
Size / Format: 0,750 – bordolese
Produced bottles: 2000 – potential 14.000
Ageing potential: 6 years
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Extract: 28 g/l
Free SO2: 30 g/l
Total SO2: 90 g/l
Alcohol vol. (%): 14%
Sugar rate: 18 g/l
Ph: 3.35
Total Acidity: 5.70 g/l
Volatile Acidity: 0,45 g/l