Tasting Notes
Colour: Colour: ruby red when young with tendency to garnet red after ageing.
Perfume: Bouquet: winey, intense, characteristic, delicate fragrance
Flavour: Fragrance: dry with a good body, accented acidity and soft tannins; full and harmonious flavour after adequate ageing
Best served at: 18° C
Food matches: Gastronomic combinings: savoury pasta dishes, white and red meat.
VINEYARD
Production area: Area of production: Monforte d’Alba, Loc. Gramolere, Cuneo, Piemonte
Height o.s.l.: 450 m.s.l.m.
Sun exposure: Solar exposure: south-west
Vines per hectare: Density : 4,600
Farming: Breeding kind: Guyot
Kg of grapes per hectare: 8,500 kg
Soil: mix (calcareous, clayey, sandy)
Year of implant: 1979-2004-2005
Surface: 1.20 ha
Wine per hectare: 5,950 lt
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Harvest: handworking
Vinifcation: traditional/submerged-cap maceration with a daily pump-over
Fining: wood
Size / Format: 0.750
Produced bottles: 4,000
Ageing potential: after three years old
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Extract: 28,6 g/l
Free SO2: 30 g/l
Total SO2: 90 g/l
Alcohol vol. (%): 14,5
Sugar rate: 2,0 g/l
Ph: 3,35 g/l
Total Acidity: 6,30 g/l
Volatile Acidity: 0,45 g/l