# Marasco (Franco M. Martinetti)

> Red, Barolo DOCG by [Franco M. Martinetti](https://ilvinobello.com/wineries/franco-m-martinetti.md), Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy. From Il Vino Bello (https://ilvinobello.com/wines/franco-m-martinetti-marasco).

- **Producer:** Franco M. Martinetti
- **Style:** Red
- **Denomination:** Barolo DOCG
- **Grape:** Nebbiolo
- **Production area:** Serralunga d'Alba (CN)
- **Soil:** Calcareous clay marl
- **Exposure:** South
- **Vineyard planting:** About 320 m altitude, hillside vineyard, rootstock 420A, about 4,800 vines per hectare, spurred cordon trained with Guyot pruning, vines over 25 years old, about 1.5 hectares.
- **Vinification:** Grapes hand-harvested (yield about 48-50 quintals/ha grape, 33-35 hl/ha wine); destemmed and pressed, macerated on the skins for about 4 days in horizontal tanks at controlled fermentation temperature, aged in fine-grain French oak barriques for over 24 months.
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-29


## Summary

Marasco is a Barolo from Serralunga d'Alba, its name playing on the sour-cherry (marasca) note in the wine's long finish.

## Tasting notes

Warm on the palate, opulent and sensual, with sour cherry in a long, alluring finish. Delicate yet intense purple shading into bordeaux, still youthful in colour. On the nose, rose and violet play hide and seek, hinting at fragrances still folded into a promising adolescence.

## Food pairings

Beyond the traditional pairings, Marasco shines with aged sheep's milk cheeses (or mixed sheep and goat), the kind left in the cellar until wrinkled and just softened at the edges.