Red
Sorano
By San Biagio, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Austere, ethereal Barolo from the Sorano vineyard in Serralunga d'Alba, 30 months in Slavonian oak.
Tasting notes
Intense, brilliant ruby red with garnet shades. Cherry in alcohol, wild rose, plum jam, ripe blackberry, licorice, bitter chocolate, resin and rhubarb; goudron, tobacco and leather in older wines. Full, powerful palate with black berry fruit, balsamic notes and licorice; quinine, fir resin and goudron with age.
Pairs well with
Red meats and game, medium and long-aged cheeses, bitter chocolate at the end of a meal.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Cru / vineyard
- Sorano
- Production area
- Sorano, Serralunga d'Alba (below the hamlet facing Diano d'Alba)
- Soil
- Sant'Agata marl
- Exposure
- South-East
- Harvest
- Mid-October, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2002; average altitude 280 m
- Vinification
- Cold static maceration for 1 day, fermentation at 26 °C for 20 days with frequent punching down, then a month of maceration with the cap submerged. 30 months in Slavonian oak with natural yeast lysis kept for the first two months, then 12 months in bottle.
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