Red
Mario Costa Nebbiolo
By Mario Costa, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
The Selezioni line Roero Riserva from 100% Nebbiolo, aged 30 months in large Slavonian oak and 12 months in bottle. Made only in exceptional vintages.
Tasting notes
Brilliant garnet red. Intense on the nose, with plum blending into balsamic hints of dried flowers, liquorice and sweet tobacco. Enveloping, full, harmonious and velvety on the palate, with intense balsamic notes and long persistence.
Pairs well with
Structured, rich dishes: meat main courses, lamb or kid, T-bone steaks, long-aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Roero Riserva DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Canale, 280 m a.s.l.
- Soil
- Sandy, well exposed
- Exposure
- South-East
- Harvest
- By hand, early to mid October
- Vineyard planting
- Counter-espalier (controspalliera) training, Guyot pruning
- Vinification
- Soft destemming, fermentation in steel with selected yeasts at controlled temperature and 30 days of maceration on the skins with frequent pump-overs. Ages 30 months in 20 hl Slavonian oak casks, then 12 months in bottles laid down. Made only in exceptional vintages, in variable quantity.
- Serving temperature
- 18 °C
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