Red
Boca
By Le Piane, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
Boca DOC from Nebbiolo and Vespolina on porphyry gravel, aged 3-4 years in large oak barrels and bottled unfiltered. Can age 10-20 years; 10,000-15,000 bottles on average, first made in 1998.
Tasting notes
Ripe forest fruits, violets, tobacco and dried herbs with hints of balsam and citrus. Power and silky elegance on the palate, with a slightly noble, bitter final note.
Pairs well with
White meat, birds, game, braised meat and cheese.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Boca DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 85%, Vespolina 15%
- Production area
- Boca
- Soil
- Porphyritic gravel of volcanic origin, pink in colour and rich in minerals, with no organic matter or chalk
- Exposure
- South
- Vineyard planting
- Old vineyards (30-50 years) at Traversagna, in Prato Sesia and at Le Piane (Antonio Cerri's old vineyard); newer vineyards (planted 1998-2004) at Mottosergo, Meridiana, Valvecchi and Traversagna. Guyot, 5,000 plants per hectare, 6.0 hectares in all; yield about 3,000-4,000 kg per hectare.
- Vinification
- Long fermentation on the skins (about 30 days, maceration up to 40 days) in open steel and wooden casks of 2,000-3,000 litres with native yeast, skins punched down by hand once a day. Pressed wine joins the free-run wine in oak barrels of 2,000-3,000 litres for 3-4 years, malolactic fermentation in spring in cask, bottled unfiltered and unfined, then 6 months in bottle before sale.