Red
Barolo
By Réva, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's classic Barolo, blended from its plots at Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga d'Alba and Grinzane Cavour (each vinified separately, then assembled). About 12,000 bottles are made.
Tasting notes
Bouquet of sage, red berry fruit, tobacco and rose notes. Full and elegant, with soft, enveloping and deep tannins.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Monforte d'Alba, Serralunga d'Alba, Grinzane Cavour
- Soil
- Sant'Agata marls, fossils and Diano d'Alba sandstone
- Exposure
- South; East; South-West
- Vineyard planting
- 4,500 plants per hectare; 2.5 ha; altitude 260-350 m
- Vinification
- Manual selection of the grapes on a vibrating table and on a destemmer that selects the berries. Soft pressing and spontaneous alcoholic fermentation on the skins in temperature-controlled steel tanks for about 35 days with a submerged cap. Then at least 18 months in 75 hl Stockinger Austrian oak barrels, with malolactic fermentation in barrel. Bottled in June of the third year after the harvest, followed by a further 14 months in bottle.
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