Red
Barbaresco
By Cantina San Matteo, Gavi, Piemonte, Italy
Barbaresco DOCG from 20-year-plus Nebbiolo vines at Neive, aged 26 months with 10 in oak, 14% ABV.
Tasting notes
Still, garnet red with ruby reflections; sour cherry and wild berry aromas that grow into the cocoa and vanilla of the oak. Elegant and balanced, with unobtrusive tannin and persistence. Good ageing potential.
Pairs well with
Traditional Piedmontese dishes with intense flavour: meat and vegetable dishes, furred and feathered game (boar, hare and pheasant civet), spit-roast and grilled red meats, aged cheeses, tajarin with hare ragu.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Neive, province of Cuneo
- Soil
- Marl (clay-limestone)
- Exposure
- Varies, mostly south-facing
- Harvest
- September to October, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Vines over 20 years old on average. Guyot. Yield 80 quintals per hectare. Low-yield vineyard care with frequent cleaning, green pruning, thinning and minimal chemical treatments.
- Vinification
- Conventional red vinification: fermentation and maceration in stainless steel at controlled temperature with selected yeasts (Italian page; the English page says indigenous yeasts), pumping over for at least 20 days. Aged 26 months, of which 10 in oak tonneaux. Low total sulphites.
- Serving temperature
- 19 °C
- Storage
- Store horizontally in a cool, damp place at about 15 °C, away from direct sunlight.
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