Red
Gallina
By Poderi e Cantine Oddero, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's Barbaresco from the Gallina cru in Neive, known for the elegance and fineness its sandy marl soil gives the wine.
Tasting notes
Elegant, with a refined bouquet and palate and assertive tannins. Red in colour with pale garnet tinges, particular finesse, balance and complexity, scents of ripe red fruit, spices and violets, mouth-filling tannins and excellent persistence.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Gallina
- Production area
- Neive, Gallina, plot 10, sub-plots 114, 327. 200 m asl, southeastern exposure. 2 ha, part of the vines 50 years old, a more recent part 13 years old.
- Soil
- Marl soil rich in fine sand, made of light sand mixed with calcareous marl, loose and drought-prone in summer.
- Exposure
- Southeastern
- Harvest
- First week of October
- Vineyard planting
- 2.7 x 0.9 m spacing, 4,500 vines/ha, Guyot upward-trained vertical-trellised system
- Vinification
- Vines scrupulously grown, grapes manually selected in vineyard and cellar, arranged in 18 kg cases, conveyor belt, gentle destemming and pressing. Fermentation and maceration for about 25 days at 28°C, malolactic fermentation in December. Aged in 40 hl French and Austrian oak barrels, bottled at the end of summer with a further six months of bottle ageing before release. 6,000 bottles produced.
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