Red
Cerretta
By Schiavenza, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Single-vineyard Barolo from the MGA Cerretta in Serralunga d'Alba, 0.85 hectares at 380 to 400 m.
Tasting notes
full and luminous garnet colour, a bewitching olfactory profile and a unique persistence, revealing potency and pure energy for long ageing.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Cerretta
- Production area
- MGA Cerretta, Serralunga d'Alba, 380 to 400 m above sea level, 0.85 ha
- Soil
- Limestone, tufa and sand
- Harvest
- By hand, second half of October
- Vineyard planting
- traditional Guyot, 4,000 vines per hectare; average vine age 25 to 35 years
- Vinification
- Fermentation and maceration in concrete vats of 3,000 to 5,000 litres at 25 to 27 C, with two pump-overs a day. Racked several times into steel tanks, then at least 18 months in Slavonian oak barrels and at least six months in bottle before release.
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