Red
Donia
By Maurizio Ponchione, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
A Barbera d'Alba made without barriques, in steel with a brief spell in large Slavonian casks to keep the fresh fruit of the grape.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Barbera
- Cru / vineyard
- Donia
- Soil
- Hilly, fertile, medium-textured
- Harvest
- Last ten days of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 3,500 vines per hectare, planted 1997, 301 m above sea level
- Vinification
- Maceration 10 to 12 days with many pump-overs and delestage; aged in stainless steel plus a short passage in 20 hl Slavonian oak casks. About 4,000 bottles.
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