White
Aurelia
By Massimo Rivetti, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
Grown on one of the highest, steepest plots in the area, a heroic vineyard worked mostly by hand. A very mineral, fresh and fragrant white.
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Langhe DOC Arneis
- Grape
- Arneis 100%
- Production area
- Mango
- Soil
- Calcareous
- Exposure
- South-east
- Harvest
- Second decade of September
- Vineyard planting
- 1.6 ha (3.96 ac) at over 500 m above sea level, on a heroic slope of over 30%, average vine age 10 years, yield 9000 kg/ha
- Vinification
- Harvested in the coolest hours of the day using dry ice, then cryo-macerated at 0C for 24 hours to extract aromas from the skins. Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel at 13C/55F for 15 days. Aged 4 months in stainless steel.
- Serving temperature
- 6C/43F, large tulip glass
- Storage
- Store bottles horizontally. Drinking life 5 to 8 years.
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