Red
Barbaresco
By Marco Bonfante, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Barbaresco from 100% Nebbiolo, aged 24 months in oak and 6 months in bottle.
Tasting notes
Clear ruby, garnet with age. Intense bouquet of violet, truffle and marzipan; spiced, velvety, with long persistence.
Pairs well with
Meat and game such as polenta with wild boar sauce; dishes with white truffle; matured Piedmontese cheeses at the end of a meal.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Soil
- Bluish calcareous clay marl
- Harvest
- First half of October
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 5,200 plants per hectare, 55 hl/ha
- Vinification
- Destalked and pressed grapes ferment on the skins in temperature-controlled steel tanks for 10 to 20 days. Aged 24 months in oak, part large barrels and part tonneaux, then 6 months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 C
- Storage
- More than 10 years if kept at a controlled, constant 12 to 14 C
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