Red
La Marescialla
By Agostino Pavia e Figli, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
Barbera d'Asti Superiore from selected old-vineyard grapes, aged 11 to 12 months in Allier barriques. About 7,000 bottles.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with delicate violet shades. Intense notes of fruit in syrup and vanilla, followed by empyreumatic hints of cocoa, toast, caramel, roasted coffee and cooked fruit. On the palate it moves from fresh red fruit to jam, vanilla, spice and tar. Full, with an intense, persistent finish.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Agliano Terme, with a small part in Montegrosso
- Soil
- Clay
- Harvest
- Hand-picked, end of September
- Vineyard planting
- Low Guyot, 5,000 vines per hectare, yield 5,000 kg per hectare; selection of grapes from old vineyards
- Vinification
- Maceration on the skins for 13 to 15 days with frequent pump-overs. Alcoholic fermentation at 28 to 30 °C, malolactic by December. Racked in January and aged 11 to 12 months in Allier barriques, then about 3 months in steel and bottled the following May. Six months in bottle. Ageing potential 7 to 9 years. 7,000 bottles.
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