Red
Vigna Clara
By Eraldo Viberti, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera d'Alba from 40-year-old vines at 250 m in Santa Maria, La Morra, first made in 1987. About 4,000 bottles are produced, aged 15 months in small barrels.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Langhe, Santa Maria, La Morra
- Soil
- Tufaceous and clay marls
- Exposure
- North-West, 250 m a.s.l.
- Harvest
- Around the last ten days of September, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 6,000 vines per hectare; vines about 40 years old; organic fertilization; about 40 quintals per hectare
- Vinification
- Stainless steel tanks with temperature control; fermentation at 29-32 C; 10 to 14 days of fermentation and maceration; malolactic fermentation; 15 months in small barrels; only rackings
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