Red
Maria Adelaide
By Bruno Rocca, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbaresco named after Maria Adelaide Bo, who bought the Rabajà vineyard with her husband Francesco Rocca in 1958.
Tasting notes
Deep garnet red. A broad nose of black fruit (blackberry, plum, cherry, sour cherry) and blood orange, flowers (violet and rose), spice and mint. Warm, elegant and enveloping, very long and persistent, with a note of cocoa.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Soil
- Clay and limestone soils: white tufaceous marl mixed with grey-blue marl and veins of sand, from the Tertiary Period.
- Vinification
- Stainless steel for 25 to 30 days, then 12 months in barrique and 18 months in large barrels, all French oak. Yield 40 hl per hectare.
More from Bruno Rocca
- Barbaresco, Barbaresco DOCG
- Barbera d'Alba, Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Cadet, Langhe DOC Chardonnay
- Currà, Barbaresco DOCG
- Fralù, Langhe DOC Nebbiolo
- Marcorino, Barbaresco DOCG
- Rabajà, Barbaresco DOCG
- Riserva Currà, Barbaresco Riserva DOCG
- Riserva Rabajà, Barbaresco Riserva DOCG
- Rosato, Langhe DOC Rosato
- Trifolé, Dolcetto d'Alba DOC