Red
Burc
By Cantina di Tortona, Colli Tortonesi, Piemonte, Italy
Burc is Cantina di Tortona's Barbera Riserva, grown on the Serravallian clays and Sant'Agata Fossili marls of the Colli Tortonesi, soils the cooperative calls Barbera's finest expression in the area.
Tasting notes
Deep ruby colour. Cherry on the nose gives way to blackberry and raspberry, rounded off by a base of undergrowth. Round on the palate with silky tannins, strongly savoury with a touch of acidity.
Pairs well with
Suits Piedmontese roasted meats and risottos.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Colli Tortonesi DOC Barbera Riserva
- Grape
- Barbera
- Production area
- Costa Vescovato, the Vho hamlet of Tortona, and Viguzzolo
- Soil
- Deep, medium textured soil with a limestone skeleton, on Serravallian clays and Sant'Agata Fossili marls
- Exposure
- South, 300 to 350 m above sea level
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training, 9 buds per plant, 4,500 vines per hectare
- Vinification
- Macerated for 10 days at controlled temperature with 3 delestage cycles, aged 12 months in cement with periodic stirring of the fine lees.
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