Red
Nebbiolo d'Alba
By Abrigo Fratelli, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Abrigo Fratelli's Nebbiolo d'Alba, from a 0.9 ha plot planted in 2003, aged partly in wood for a fuller style than the Langhe Nebbiolo.
Tasting notes
Colour: clear, fairly intense ruby red with garnet reflections. Bouquet: fairly intense, complex and fine, balsamic and spicy on entry, broadening into ripe raspberry jam and currants, very fine oak spice, balsamic violet in the background. Taste: dry, warm, fresh and quite soft, velvety sandy tannin, vanilla and oak, persistent mineral sensation, robust but balanced body, very fine and long.
Pairs well with
Full-bodied dishes, well-seasoned first courses, meat mains, well-aged cheeses
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Nebbiolo d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Diano d'Alba
- Soil
- Clayey-calcareous marl, forming an evolved loamy soil
- Exposure
- South-west
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2003, 4500 vines/ha, about 0.9 ha
- Vinification
- Grapes gently crushed and destemmed, fermented in contact with the skins for 8-9 days at 28-29°C, aged 12 months in wood (used oak casks and French barriques) after time in steel, then at least six months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 18°C
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