Sweet
Alladium
By Cieck, Canavese, Piemonte, Italy
Alladium is Cieck's traditional Erbaluce passito, dried the old Canavese way on hanging racks over winter and aged at least five years in oak; the estate has made it since 1985 and named it after Aglié's Latin name.
Tasting notes
Shimmering old gold; enveloping bouquet of unrefined honey and candied lemon, aromatic and musky; sweet, fresh palate with a stable, broad structure, warm and velvety with a pleasant hint of freshness on the finish
Pairs well with
Pastries, dried fruit and nuts, blue cheeses, terrines and pâtés; a meditation wine, or an unusual aperitif
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG Passito
- Grape
- Erbaluce
- Production area
- San Giorgio Canavese, Piedmont; first made in Aglié in 1985
- Soil
- Moraine soils
- Exposure
- South, south-west
- Harvest
- The best, healthiest, thin-skinned bunches are selected then hand-hung to dry naturally for 4-5 months, from September to January or February
- Vineyard planting
- Pergola training; altitude approx. 320 m above sea level; average vine age approx. 30 years
- Vinification
- Selected bunches are dried naturally on traditional hanging racks, protected from mould while allowing noble rot to develop; in January the grapes are gently pressed in a small wooden press, the cold must settles and then ferments; ages at least five years in small French and Slavonian oak barrels, refilled periodically as the wood absorbs product, followed by six months in bottle
- Serving temperature
- 12-14°C
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