Red
Nebbiolo d'Alba
By Rizieri, Langhe, Piemonte, Italy
Nebbiolo from the home hillside at Diano d'Alba, aged over a year in large barrels and tonneaux. The producer says it shares the bouquet and elegance of Barolo and keeps 15 to 20 years.
Tasting notes
Medium-intensity ruby red with garnet reflections and good transparency. Rosehip, ripe red fruit and cherries in spirit, with notes of face powder, dark chocolate and hazelnut. Elegant and harmonious, with velvety tannins and a long finish.
Pairs well with
Tajarin with Alba white truffle, game, red meats, boiled meats and aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Nebbiolo d'Alba DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Production area
- Sorì del Ricchino, Diano d'Alba
- Soil
- Calcareous-clayey with sandy veins
- Exposure
- 350 m above sea level; south/south-west
- Harvest
- October
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training. Fertilised with manure and green manure; soil managed by hoeing and mowing under the row. Yield 45 hl/ha. Picked by hand in 20 kg crates. No herbicides are used on the estate.
- Vinification
- Fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel with 15 to 18 days of skin maceration; malolactic fermentation in wood. Aged more than 12 months in 25 hl barrels and 500 l French oak tonneaux. Bottled after a very light filtration with minimal sulphites.
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