Red
Barbera d'Alba
By Renzo Seghesio, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
The estate's classic Barbera d'Alba, from Bricco Chiesa and Pajana della Ginestra, aged about a year in tonneaux and large oak.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red. Plum, marasca cherry, red fruit and spice. Full, fresh and harmonious, long and intense, with a persistent, balanced aftertaste and well-integrated acidity.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Bricco Chiesa, La Morra, and Pajana della Ginestra, Monforte d'Alba
- Soil
- Silt-rich marl at Santa Maria (Bricco Chiesa), calcareous tufa at Ginestra
- Harvest
- Early October, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 4,500 vines per hectare
- Vinification
- Destemmed and gently pressed with 30% whole berries. Fermentation with Saccharomyces pombe yeast, with an initial separation of solid and liquid parts; 16 days on the skins with pump-overs. Aged in steel (30%) and wood (70%): tonneaux (Allier and Nevers) for 5 to 6 months, then 3,200-litre Slavonian oak for another 5 to 6 months. 14.52% alcohol, 70 q/ha yield.
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