Red
Bricco Morlantino
By Casalone, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera del Monferrato Superiore DOCG from the Bricco Morlantino vineyard, aged about 12 months in traditional oak casks.
Tasting notes
Lively ruby red color. Fresh, fine and intense nose with fine notes of red fruit over a spiced background. Round and harmonious palate, properly tannic, persistent.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera del Monferrato Superiore DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera
- Cru / vineyard
- Morlantino
- Production area
- Bricco Morlantino
- Soil
- Clay-calcareous soil, well exposed
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot pruning with low buds per vine, cover cropping and cluster thinning
- Vinification
- Crushing and destemming, maceration on the skins for about 10 days with intensive pump-overs. Aged about 12 months in traditional 15-hectolitre oak casks. Also available in magnum format (1.5 litres).
- Serving temperature
- 18-20 C
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