Red
Montevenere
By Caudrina, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's barrique-aged Barbera d'Asti Superiore from old owned vines in the Bricco area of Nizza Monferrato.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with intriguing violet reflections. Broad nose with a pleasant, very complex oak note (coffee, cocoa, vanilla) while keeping fruity notes. Harmonious, good body, pleasant and very persistent tannins.
Pairs well with
First courses with meat or mushroom sauces, red meat or game main courses; to try with blue and aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Nizza DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Nizza Monferrato, Bricco
- Soil
- Limestone
- Exposure
- South-south-west
- Vineyard planting
- 1.5 ha, Barbera, planted 1975, 250 m altitude, 20-30% slope, hilly
- Vinification
- Grapes from owned vineyards in Nizza Monferrato, Bricco area. Traditional vinification with 12 to 15 days of skin contact at about 24 C (8 days in the PDF), then held at 23 C for malolactic fermentation. The following spring it goes into small French oak barrels (one third new, one third second use, one third third use) for about 9 to 15 months, then further ageing in steel before bottling.
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