White
Enritard
By Cornarea, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
Roero Arneis held back in steel for two years, made in the best vintages in about 3,000 bottles. It was created to show how Cornarea's Arneis develops with age; the cellar has tasted bottles as old as 1983.
Tasting notes
Still shows important fruit, in particular yellow peach and pear, with the mineral note already marked on nose and palate: more the smell of sun-warmed stone than the hydrocarbon of Riesling.
Pairs well with
Fish, but also grilled meat and medium-aged cheeses.
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Roero Arneis DOCG
- Grape
- Arneis 100%
- Production area
- Cornarea hill, Canale (Roero)
- Soil
- Prevalently sand and clay, rich in magnesium
- Exposure
- East, south-east, north-east, west
- Vineyard planting
- Same vineyards as the classic Roero Arneis: 11.5 ha, planted 1975-1977; Kober 5BB rootstock; 4,000 vines per hectare; trellis with Guyot pruning; 80-85 quintals per hectare; average altitude 280 m
- Vinification
- Aged 24 months in steel tanks before bottling, which is where the name comes from ('en ritard', a late bottling), with 6 months on the lees. Vineyards and winemaking are otherwise the same as the classic Roero Arneis. Steel keeps freshness and drinkability alongside complexity, compared with ageing in barriques.
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