Red
Pietrin
By Abrigo Fratelli, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Il Vino Bello rating: 4.5 / 5
Abrigo Fratelli's single-vineyard Dolcetto from the Pietrìn plot, aged longer and more concentrated than the estate's base Diano d'Alba.
Tasting notes
Colour: clear, very intense ruby red with purple reflections. Bouquet: intense and fine, decidedly complex, ripe red fruit jam intertwined with dried flowers and an important spiciness of cinnamon, cloves and vanilla. Taste: dry with a warm, soft entry, silky and slightly bitterish tannin, almost liqueur-like black cherry with cinnamon and cloves and a light balsamic mint, almond on the finish, robust, balanced, fine and persistent.
Pairs well with
Main courses of meat, cold meats and cheeses
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Diano d'Alba DOCG Superiore
- Grape
- Dolcetto 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Pietrin
- Production area
- Diano d'Alba
- Soil
- Clayey-calcareous marl with a good presence of sand and sandstone, forming a young, loamy-textured soil
- Exposure
- South-west
- Vineyard planting
- Vines averaging about 50 years old (some up to 76 years), 4500 vines/ha, about 0.5 ha
- Vinification
- Grapes gently destemmed, fermented in contact with the skins for 5-6 days at 26-27°C, matured in steel tanks for about nine months plus at least six months in bottle, bottled the summer following harvest.
- Serving temperature
- 18°C
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