Tasting Notes
Colour: ruby red, with orange reflections at time
Perfume: characteristic, soft and delicate
Flavour: dry or slightly sweet with good body, velvety and lively
Best served at: 18°C
Food matches: it pairs with heavier first dishes, roasted and stuffed meat, and medium aged cheese
VINEYARD
Production area: Monforte d’Alba, Loc. Gramolere, Cuneo, Piemonte
Height o.s.l.: 450 mt
Sun exposure: south-west
Vines per hectare: 5,000
Farming: Guyot
Kg of grapes per hectare: 90
Soil: mix (calcareous, clayey, sandy)
Wine per hectare: 6300 l.
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Harvest: handworking
Vinifcation: traditional/submerged-cap maceration with a daily pump-over
Fining: bottle
Vintage: 2009
Aging: inox
Size / Format: 0.750 – Bordolese
Produced bottles: 1,000
Ageing potential: max after 2 years
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Extract: 28 g/l
Free SO2: 50 g/l
Total SO2: 95 g/l
Alcohol vol. (%): 13.5%
Sugar rate: 23 g/l
Ph: 3.20
Total Acidity: 5.50 g/l
Volatile Acidity: 0.45 g/l