Red
Poggio del Rosso
By Claudio Mariotto, Colli Tortonesi, Piemonte, Italy
Dedicated to Claudio's father, known as 'il Rosso', from the historic Barbera vineyard beside the winery, aged 12 months in oak and 24 months in bottle.
Tasting notes
Fragrant, abundant and clean, with spiced notes of cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, coffee and licorice, plus morel mushroom and blackberry alongside sweet pipe tobacco. Deep, soft tones recalling ripe cherries and chocolate.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Colli Tortonesi Barbera DOC
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Vho, 250-300 m a.s.l.
- Soil
- Calcareous, clayey
- Exposure
- West/south-west
- Harvest
- End of September/beginning of October
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot pruning, from the historic Barbera vineyard next to the winery, yield about 40 quintals/hectare
- Vinification
- Soft and slow destemming and pressing of the grapes, maceration for 10-12 days and racking. Aged Burgundian style in small second-passage oak barrels for about 12 months, followed by a further 24 months in bottle.
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