Red

Gamba di Pernice

By Daffara & Grasso, Asti, Piemonte, Italy

Daffara & Grasso Gamba di Pernice

A Calosso DOC from 100% Gamba di Pernice, a native late-ripening variety grown from cuttings of old local vines, aged at least 20 months.

Tasting notes

Ruby red with garnet reflections. Intense and spicy, recalling green pepper, slightly vanilla-scented and balsamic with age. Properly tannic, full-bodied and mineral, with a spicy aftertaste echoing the nose.

Pairs well with

Cured meats (page category)

Technical details

Style
Red
Denomination
Calosso DOC
Grape
Gamba di Pernice 100%
Production area
Calosso
Harvest
Late October; a late-ripening variety
Vineyard planting
Vines grown from cuttings of historic vines found around Calosso
Vinification
Picked into crates, destemmed and fermented on the skins for about 15 days at 25 °C. Racked off at the end of fermentation, with malolactic in steel. Mandatory ageing of at least 20 months: 50% in third and fourth-passage wood, the rest in steel.

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