Red
Madonna dei Monti
By Tenuta Magrini, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera d'Asti Superiore from twenty-year-old vines, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged 18 months in barrique. Fine tannin, measured oak. 14.5% vol, organic (ICEA), first vintage 2022.
Pairs well with
Brasato al Barolo, Piedmontese bollito misto, game, aged cheeses (Castelmagno, Raschera), black truffle.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Grazzano Badoglio, Monferrato
- Soil
- Calcareous-marly soil on Langhian formations of marl and sandstone (estate-level, home page).
- Exposure
- South-facing, 350 m a.s.l. (estate-level, home page)
- Harvest
- manual
- Vineyard planting
- Twenty-year-old vines, Grazzano Badoglio, 350 m a.s.l.
- Vinification
- Hand harvest in crates, fermentation with indigenous yeasts, 18 months in barrique.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 °C, open one hour before
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