Red
Sottocastello di Novello Riserva
By Ca' Viola, Dogliani, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's second Barolo "riserva" after the 2006 vintage: a small number of bottles from a selection of a few rows, with a label by Gianni Gallo.
Tasting notes
Dark, intense, clear garnet. Cherry, raspberry, floral and citrus notes, violet, dog rose and liquorice. Powerful, dense and structured with fine tannin; tonic and substantial, very savoury, fresh and persistent.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Cru / vineyard
- Sottocastello di Novello
- Production area
- Sottocastello di Novello vineyard, Novello, 1.89 hectares
- Soil
- Substrate of grey-whitish clayey-silty marls (Marne di S. Agata Fossili) with layers of grey-brown or yellowish sands and sandstones (Arenarie di Diano d'Alba) above; soil clayey-sandy, little evolved, pale, moderately calcareous, alkaline pH
- Exposure
- South-East, about 420 m average altitude
- Harvest
- First to second ten days of October
- Vineyard planting
- 5,000 vines per hectare, Guyot, 55 quintals per hectare, average vine age 20 years; manure and green manure, copper and sulphur, mechanical weeding
- Vinification
- No selected yeasts; 15 to 20 days of fermentation in unglazed concrete tanks; 25 to 30 days of maceration with submerged cap; about 36 months in large oak casks, 12 months in ceramic amphorae and about 24 months in bottle; not filtered; about 1,800 bottles a year
- Serving temperature
- 14-15°C
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