Red
Barolo
By Aurelio Settimo, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's regular Barolo, 13.5% to 14.5% alcohol, up to 14,000 bottles.
Tasting notes
Deep garnet red with ruby highlights. Expansive, complex bouquet of spices, wood and licorice. Very soft, pleasing and elegant on the palate.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- 2.25 ha of Nebbiolo on south-east facing slopes at Frazione Annunziata, La Morra
- Soil
- Sandy-calcareous
- Exposure
- South-East
- Vineyard planting
- Vines 9 to 60 years old across the estate, Guyot, 4,500-5,000 vines per hectare; max yield 8,000 kg/ha
- Vinification
- Fermentation on the skins for about 15 to 20 days in temperature-controlled steel tanks with automated cap breaking, then concrete. Malolactic in concrete. 36 months in total: 12 in concrete, 18 in large casks of French (Allier, Nevers) and Austrian (Manhartsberg, Weidling) oak, 2,500 to 3,500 litres, 7 to 20 years old and not toasted, then about 12 in concrete. At least 6 months in bottle.
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