Red
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By Cinque Quinti, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
A limited special edition, a different wine each harvest; the current one is a 2021 Grignolino Riserva, 15.5% vol. 1,450 bottles, 51 magnums and 9 jeroboams.
Tasting notes
Ruby red with garnet reflections. Described as elegant, structured, age-worthy and distinctive.
Pairs well with
Great classics of the table such as melt-in-the-mouth braised meat or a succulent rib-eye.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Grignolino del Monferrato Casalese DOC Riserva
- Grape
- Grignolino 100%
- Production area
- Olivola (AL), 290 m above sea level
- Soil
- High percentage of limestone with a good balance between silt and clay; Cardona Formation (about 30 million years ago)
- Exposure
- South/West
- Harvest
- 11 October 2021 (2021 technical sheet), picked by hand in the early hours of the morning
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2000, Guyot training
- Vinification
- Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in steel; skin contact for 14 days at 26-27°C; 27 months in French oak barrels; 9 months in bottle; bottled 4 July 2024.
- Serving temperature
- 14-16°C
- Storage
- Best evolutionary peak: 15 years
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