Red
Barolo del Comune di Monforte d'Alba
By Amalia Cascina in Langa, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Le Coste, Bussia (Vigna Fantini)
- Production area
- Monforte d'Alba: Le Coste (about 400 m) and Vigna Fantini in Bussia (about 450 m)
- Soil
- Le Coste: sandy Sant'Agata fossil marls (Tortonian); Fantini: Diano sandstone
- Exposure
- Le Coste east/south-east; Fantini west/south-west
- Harvest
- Hand harvested
- Vineyard planting
- Le Coste planted 1982, Fantini 2007, Guyot, 5,000 plants/ha, 6.0 t/ha
- Vinification
- Destemmed and crushed, floating cap maceration with daily pumping over for about 20 days, malolactic fermentation, 30 months in French oak, then bottle ageing
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