Red
Barbaresco
By Socré, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy
The vintage Barbaresco: Nebbiolo aged 18 months in used French oak, with a classy, structured style and 15 to 20 years of ageing potential.
Tasting notes
Garnet red, never too intense, turning orange or brick with age. Intense, elegant aromas of violet and cherry jam with balsamic and minty notes. Important structure and dense tannins. Alcohol 13.5 to 14.5% vol, dry extract high, about 30 g/l.
Pairs well with
Red and white meat; agnolotti or tajarin with meat ragout or roast-meat gravy.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbaresco DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Barbaresco (CN); the estate's Barbaresco vineyards are all in the Roncaglie subarea
- Soil
- Mostly clay over a limestone base, strongly alkaline, with stratified marl-clay and silt from an ancient seabed (estate vineyards at Barbaresco)
- Exposure
- South to west, slopes medium to steep, 250 to 290 m above sea level (estate vineyards at Barbaresco)
- Vinification
- Aged 18 months in used 225-litre French oak barrels, then in concrete vats, and bottled not less than six months after that.
- Serving temperature
- 18-19°C, in large crystal glasses
- Storage
- Ageing potential of 15 to 20 years.
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