Sweet
Vento di Sole
By Valdinera, Roero, Piemonte, Italy
Arneis passito from the Buonagiunta vineyard, first made in 1995; about 2,500 bottles a year at 14%.
Tasting notes
Golden yellow. Ethereal, with vanilla, honey and spices. Intense caramel with good acidity.
Pairs well with
Mature cheese and fruit desserts
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Langhe DOC Arneis Passito
- Grape
- Arneis 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Buonagiunta
- Production area
- Corneliano d'Alba (CN)
- Soil
- White soil mixed with sand, with veins of tufo
- Harvest
- September, by hand
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 1988; 0.4 ha on a hill at 280-310 m; Guyot training; 3,400 vines per hectare; yield 40 q/ha
- Vinification
- Soft pressing, fermentation in barriques, then ageing in 225 L barrels. Bottled several months after harvest
- Serving temperature
- 15-18 C
- Storage
- Fresh, dry cellar; ageing potential 10-20 years
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