Red
Sizzano
By La Piemontina, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
A Sizzano named for the village next to the cellar, from Nebbiolo and Vespolina, aged 24 months in wood and steel, 13% alcohol.
Tasting notes
Ruby with garnet tones. Vinous, with light floral notes of rose and violet and red woodland fruit. Savoury and round, with velvety tannins and good persistence.
Pairs well with
Egg and filled pasta, white or red meats, roasts, short to medium aged cheeses, cured meats
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Sizzano DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo, Vespolina
- Soil
- Moraine and alluvial
- Exposure
- South to south-east
- Harvest
- Nebbiolo in late autumn, when morning fog wraps the hills; Vespolina usually in the last 10 days of September or early October, depending on the summer
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot Classico; 280 m a.s.l.; Nebbiolo 21 ha, Vespolina 1.5 ha; 3,472 vines per hectare for both; 80 q/ha Nebbiolo, 85 q/ha Vespolina; average vine age 12 years (Nebbiolo, oldest 1976) and 6 years (Vespolina, oldest 2015)
- Vinification
- Fermentation in temperature-controlled steel at 26 °C, malolactic fermentation in steel with indigenous microflora. Aged 24 months in wood and steel and 6 months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 16 to 18 °C
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