Red
Barolo
By Tenuta Rocca, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Estate Barolo from Monforte d'Alba on Diano sandstone, aged in wood and about 10 months in bottle.
Tasting notes
Garnet red with orange accents. Black pepper, leather and cinnamon, with finer violet and Spanish cherry. Properly tannic and moderately austere.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barolo DOCG
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 100%
- Production area
- Monforte d'Alba (CN)
- Soil
- Diano sandstone (Tortonian), evolved soils with good water availability made up of sandy-silty deposits
- Exposure
- South-southwest, west, 380 m
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot; organic fertilisation and compost, mechanical weeding; certified organic
- Vinification
- Shoot and early bunch thinning during ripening, bunch selection at harvest. Traditional red vinification, fermentation at 28-30 C in steel tanks. Aged in wood, then about 10 months in bottle. Unfiltered.
- Serving temperature
- 15-17 °C
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