# Boca (Davide Carlone)

> Red, Boca DOC by [Davide Carlone](https://ilvinobello.com/wineries/davide-carlone.md), Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy. From Il Vino Bello (https://ilvinobello.com/wines/davide-carlone-boca).

- **Producer:** Davide Carlone
- **Style:** Red
- **Denomination:** Boca DOC
- **Grape:** Nebbiolo, Vespolina
- **Production area:** Boca, Prato Sesia
- **Soil:** Land rich in porphyry, giving an acidic, sterile soil
- **Exposure:** South, South-West
- **Harvest:** Second decade of October, manual selection and harvesting
- **Vineyard planting:** Guyot training, 4,500 vines/hectare, yield 70-80 quintals/hectare, on 2.5 hectares: 0.5 ha of 50-year-old vines and 2 ha of 15-year-old vines
- **Vinification:** Destemmed and pressed right after harvest, 30 days on the skins with daily pumping-over, then malolactic fermentation in steel tanks with natural indigenous yeasts. Aged 34 months, of which at least 18 in Slavonian oak barrels, plus at least 4 months in bottle, released about three and a half years after harvest.
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-26


## Summary

A Nebbiolo-Vespolina blend under the historic Boca DOC, aged 34 months including at least 18 in Slavonian oak.

## Tasting notes

Vivid, bright garnet. Elegant, fine nose with nuances of dark berries, ripe black plums, blood oranges, dried medicinal herbs, violets, roses and wilted irises, and sweet-to-dark spicy notes of cardamom and liquorice. Fresh, savoury palate, rightly taut with tannin that outlines its ageing potential, with a lingering finish; excellent young, but it will surprise after a few years in the bottle.

## Food pairings

Meat dishes, cold cuts and mature cheeses.