Tasting Notes
Colour: garnet red with orange reflections
Perfume: characteristic, ethereal, pleasing and intense
Flavour: dry, full, robust, harsh but velvety and harmonic
Best served at: 18°C
Food matches: A wine with an intense personality, it goes well with robust second courses, game in general and strong cheeses and traditional Langa’s dishes
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: 80
Soil: mix (lalcareous, clayey, sandy)
Year of implant: 1964 – 1971 – 2000 – 2004 – 2005
Surface: 2,5 ha
Wine per hectare: 50 q
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Harvest: handworking
Vinifcation: traditional/submerged-cap maceration with a daily pump-over
Fining: bottle
Vintage: 2005
Aging: 30 hl big oak barrels
Size / Format: 0,750 – bordolese
Produced bottles: 1500 – potential 12.000
Ageing potential: 10 years
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Extract: 28 g/l
Free SO2: 30 g/l
Total SO2: 90 g/l
Alcohol vol. (%): 14,5%
Sugar rate: 18 g/l
Ph: 3.40
Total Acidity: 5.20 g/l
Volatile Acidity: 0,45 g/l