White
Rigadin
By Pelissero, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
A late-ripening Riesling from a north-facing, windy 400 m vineyard, first made in 2015.
Tasting notes
Green-yellow with bright reflections. Honey, butter, flint, tobacco and tea, with apricot, pear, lemon, grapefruit, thyme, sage, nettle and hawthorn. Structured and savoury, with good acidity alongside minerality.
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Langhe DOC Riesling
- Grape
- Riesling 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Rigadin
- Production area
- Rigadin vineyard, Ferrere sub-zone, Treiso
- Soil
- Sandy, silty, very light and permeable, with a deep calcareous subsoil
- Exposure
- North
- Harvest
- Mid-September
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2010, Guyot, 5,000 vines per hectare, 400 m above sea level
- Vinification
- Good leaf cover kept until harvest to avoid sunburn. Light skin contact at low temperature, low-temperature fermentation with indigenous yeasts, then rest on the lees over winter with repeated stirring, and straight to bottle.
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