Red
Stella Rossa
By Marco Bonfante, Nizza, Piemonte, Italy
Easy-drinking Barbera d'Asti Superiore named after the vineyards around the Nizza Monferrato winery that once belonged to the Stella farm.
Tasting notes
Bright purple-red. Winy bouquet of cherry and marasca cherry with a very delicate vanilla note. Dry, full-bodied and structured, with the variety's acidity, persistent, with balanced tannins.
Pairs well with
Monferrato dishes such as anchovies in green sauce, bagna cauda with Nizza cardoon, risotto, tajarin; in particular panissa.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Production area
- Vineyards around the winery in Nizza Monferrato, which once belonged to the Stella farm
- Soil
- Calcareous clay marl
- Exposure
- South, south-east
- Harvest
- Second half of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 5,500 plants per hectare, 65 hl/ha, altitude 250 m
- Vinification
- Half the crop is cold-macerated; the other half is destalked, soft-pressed and left 10 days on the skins. Aged 10 months, half in Slavonian oak barrels and half in used French oak barriques.
- Serving temperature
- 16-18 C
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