Red
Piemonte Merlot
By Emanuele Gambino, Asti, Piemonte, Italy
A 100% Merlot from Costigliole d'Asti, aged 18 months in Austrian oak tonneaux.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with purple highlights turning garnet with age. Intense nose of small red fruits, sour cherry and redcurrant, with the vegetal note of an early-ripening variety, green tobacco and sweet spice from oak. Warm and full-bodied with a well-structured tannic backbone and a long finish.
Pairs well with
Complex meat dishes or game, such as duck breast with balsamic vinegar.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Piemonte DOC Merlot
- Grape
- Merlot 100%
- Production area
- Costigliole d'Asti
- Soil
- Clay-limestone
- Exposure
- South
- Harvest
- Third decade of September
- Vineyard planting
- Espalier with Guyot pruning; yield 70 quintals per hectare
- Vinification
- Manual harvest in 20 kg ventilated crates. Destemming and gentle crushing. Fermentation in stainless steel at 26°C with about 15 days of maceration, pump-overs and délestage. Malolactic fermentation in stainless steel. Aged 18 months in Austrian oak tonneaux, then 6 months in bottle.
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