Red
Vespa
By Cascina Castlèt, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's simplest, most everyday Barbera d'Asti, deliberately left without a separate cuvée name; on the label and in the estate's own materials it goes by the nickname "Vespa", after the 1950s family photo on its label.
Tasting notes
Intense, bright ruby red confirming the wine's freshness and vinosity. Intense, persistent bouquet, pleasantly fruity with floral and fresh-fruit notes. Dry, harmonious, savoury and balanced, a joyful wine for toasting and conviviality. Alcohol 13 to 14% vol.
Pairs well with
An everyday, all-meal wine: starters, first courses, grilled white and red meats, mixed boiled meats, cured meats and lightly aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Asti DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Several hillside vineyards around Costigliole d'Asti.
- Harvest
- First half of October, carefully selected bunches, vinified immediately.
- Vineyard planting
- About 5,000 vines per hectare, yield 85 to 90 quintals per hectare (60 to 62 hl of wine).
- Vinification
- Skin-contact fermentation lasts about 6 to 7 days at controlled temperature with frequent pump-overs for optimal colour and aroma extraction; malolactic fermentation is carefully managed after racking.
- Serving temperature
- 16°C in medium-capacity glasses.
- Storage
- Short maturation, released a few months after bottling, and keeps for a few years.
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