# Licin (Filippo Gallino)

> Red, Roero DOCG by [Filippo Gallino](https://ilvinobello.com/wineries/filippo-gallino.md), Roero, Piemonte, Italy. From Il Vino Bello (https://ilvinobello.com/wines/filippo-gallino-licin).

- **Producer:** Filippo Gallino
- **Style:** Red
- **Denomination:** Roero DOCG
- **Grape:** Nebbiolo
- **Production area:** Roero, in the municipality of Canale
- **Soil:** Sandy, calcareous clay, light-coloured
- **Harvest:** Early October, by hand only
- **Vineyard planting:** Traditional Guyot training, 8 to 9 bunches per plant; yield of 60 quintals per hectare
- **Vinification:** Grapes are crushed and destemmed, macerated for 7 to 10 days with manual pump-overs, then vinified and refined in steel tanks.
- **Serving temperature:** Room temperature
- **Storage:** About 12 months in 25 hl wooden casks.
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-25


## Summary

A Roero DOCG Nebbiolo with softer, more velvety tannins than the Langhe style, ready to drink sooner. First bottled in 1994 and dedicated to Filippo Gallino's father, Felice, known as "Licin".

## Tasting notes

Bright ruby red with orange highlights that increase with age. Aromas of small red fruit, raspberry, violet, liquorice, rose petal, spice, leather, cardamom and clove. Full and enveloping on the palate, with ripe fruit, blackberry and wild strawberry, persistent and gently tannic.

## Food pairings

Red meat, traditional Piedmontese cooking, furred and feathered game, aged cheeses and cured meats.