Red
Riserva La Volta
By Azienda Agricola Stra, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A Barolo Riserva from the La Volta MGA, made from a selection of the best bunches and only in years of exceptional quality, aged 60 months in oak.
Tasting notes
Intense garnet red with orange reflections. Intense scent with a wide range of spices, rose and red fruit. Structured and persistent on the palate, never invasive, with fine, velvety tannins and evident notes of rose, liquorice and ripe fruit.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG Riserva
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- La Volta
- Production area
- Vineyards in the municipality of Barolo
- Soil
- Slightly less clayey
- Exposure
- South-west
- Harvest
- Mid October
- Vinification
- Destemming and crushing, fermentation in temperature-controlled steel tanks for about 3 weeks. Soft pressing; malolactic fermentation happens naturally after the first racking. After a couple of months, ageing in oak barrels of 10 to 30 hl for 60 months.
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