Red
Montefico Vecchie Viti
By Roagna, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
Made from the family's old vines in Montefico, the estate's longest continually vinified vineyard; bottled as Barbaresco Montefico from 2004 to 2006 and as Vecchie Viti since the 2007 vintage, about 1,000 bottles a year.
Tasting notes
This Barbaresco Montefico Vecchie Viti reveals a garnet red color with complex aromas of dried roses, tar, and forest floor. The palate is powerful and structured, with firm tannins and a long, savory finish.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Cru / vineyard
- Montefico
- Production area
- Municipality of Barbaresco, Montefico MGA, halfway up the amphitheatre facing Neive; purchased by the family in 1929.
- Soil
- Tertiary (Cenozoic) marine sedimentation, with marl in a calcareous clay subsoil.
- Exposure
- South-east facing, at 230 m, on a small triangular 0.24 ha plot.
- Vineyard planting
- Old Nebbiolo vines, some dating from immediately after phylloxera.
- Vinification
- Aged for an average of five years in wood and concrete.
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