Red
Langhe Merlot
By Rizieri, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Merlot from the estate hillside, aged 8 months in French oak tonneaux. The producer says it keeps 10 to 12 years.
Tasting notes
Bright ruby red with purple reflections. Complex, with ripe red fruit and a sweetly spiced note. Elegant and soft, with a persistent finish and acidity and tannins balanced by the wood ageing.
Pairs well with
First courses, red meats, mushrooms and medium-aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Langhe DOC Merlot
- Grape
- Merlot
- Production area
- Diano d'Alba (Sorì del Ricchino estate)
- Soil
- Calcareous-clayey with sandy veins
- Exposure
- 350 m above sea level; south-west
- Harvest
- September to October
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training. Fertilised with manure and green manure; soil managed by hoeing and mowing under the row. Yield 40 hl/ha. Picked by hand in 20 kg crates. No herbicides are used on the estate.
- Vinification
- Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel with about 10 days of skin maceration; malolactic fermentation in wood. Aged 8 months in 500 l French oak tonneaux. Bottled after a very light filtration with minimal sulphites.
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