Red
Prapò
By Bugia nen, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Single-vineyard Barolo from Prapò in Serralunga d'Alba, 100% Nebbiolo, first made in 2014 with about 3,500 bottles and 14.0% alcohol. The producer calls it austere and long-lived.
Tasting notes
Imposing aroma of fruit and spices: blackberry and blueberry jam, cloves. Soft palate with notable structure and marked savouriness, extremely fine tannins and long persistence.
Pairs well with
Lamb shank, roast kid with potatoes.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Prapò
- Production area
- Serralunga d'Alba, Prapò; 365 m a.s.l.
- Soil
- Limestone
- Exposure
- South-east
- Harvest
- Mid-October
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2000; espalier training, Guyot pruning
- Vinification
- Fermented in concrete tanks on the skins for about 28 days, with daily pumping over and one delestage at the midpoint. Aged 18 to 30 months depending on the vintage in large 25 hl French oak barrels from the Fontainebleau forest.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 C
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