Red
Castello
By Arnaldo Rivera, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Barolo from a single vineyard in the Castello MGA, facing south-west at 250 m. Average annual production 3,500 bottles.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Castello
- Production area
- Single vineyard in the Castello MGA, Grinzane Cavour
- Soil
- Brown, marly, deep, partly developed soil on typical Sant'Agata Fossil Marl (about 10 million years old, Tortonian), a fluvial terrace shaped by the Talloria stream.
- Exposure
- South-west facing, 250 m a.s.l., gradient about 10%
- Vineyard planting
- Vineyard planted 2003
- Vinification
- Fermentation and maceration in stainless steel for about three weeks at a controlled temperature; spontaneous malolactic fermentation in wood. Aged about 30 months in cask.
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