Red
Roero
By Gabriele Cordero, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
Critics and guides
- Award: Faccino 95/100 (Doctor Wine, Guida Essenziale ai Vini d'Italia 2027), vintage 2023 (source)
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Roero DOCG made from the selected best Nebbiolo of the Barbarini vineyard, aged about 18 months in second-use French barriques plus 6 months in bottle. The label is a stylised vine whose fruits are grapes, corn cobs, hazelnuts and peaches, standing for the biodiversity of the Roero.
Tasting notes
Delicate tannins; nose of strawberry with a slight touch of tobacco.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Roero DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Cru / vineyard
- Barbarini
- Production area
- Barbarini vineyard, Priocca (selection of the best grapes)
- Soil
- Sandy, with a modest clay content
- Exposure
- South-west
- Vineyard planting
- Nebbiolo planted in 2016; Guyot
- Vinification
- Heavy thinning of bunches about a month before harvest. Only conforming bunches are picked and about 10% of the grapes ferment as whole bunches. Aged about 18 months in second-passage French oak barriques with very light toasting, used to stabilise colour through micro-oxygenation rather than to alter the wine's character, then a further 6 months in bottle.
More from Gabriele Cordero
- Barbera d'Alba, Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Fuschìa, Langhe DOC Nebbiolo
- Hica, Barbera d'Alba Superiore DOC
- Innav, Roero Arneis DOCG