Red
Bricco delle Viole
By Sylla Sebaste, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Cru Barolo from the Bricco delle Viole vineyard next to the winery, first made with the 2012 vintage. It is cryomacerated before fermentation and made only in the best years.
Tasting notes
Brilliant garnet with coppery reflections. Red flower petals, plum jam, liquorice, sandalwood and musk. Strong and elegant with marked minerality, a soft texture and mature tannins, and a finish of dark chocolate powder and medlar peel.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Bricco delle Viole
- Soil
- Marly soil of the Tortonian period (Marne di Sant'Agata Fossili), limestone and clay in near-equal parts with occasional sandy bands
- Exposure
- South
- Harvest
- Around mid-October, by hand in crates
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 2003
- Vinification
- Five days of cryomaceration at -5 °C, then spontaneous fermentation in steel at 28 °C without temperature control for 15 days, malolactic in steel with daily mechanical pumping at 18 to 20 °C. 36 months in large oak barrels (30% new, medium toast), at least 15 months in bottle. About 3,000 bottles, 14% alcohol.
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