Red
Senatore Primo Rosso
By Villa Doria, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
A yesteryear-style red named after Daniele Lanzavecchia Senior, known as the 'Senatùr'. Alcohol 12 to 13% vol.
Tasting notes
Purplish colour. Pronounced black fruit, plum and strawberry jam, violet and mild almond; full-bodied, with the Dolcetto's mild bitterness balancing the Barbera's residual sugar and acidity.
Pairs well with
Goes with all courses, from starters to full-flavoured pasta and rice dishes and fairly mild meat dishes.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Piemonte Rosso DOC
- Grape
- Dolcetto and Barbera
- Production area
- Hills across the whole of Piedmont
- Harvest
- Hand harvest
- Vineyard planting
- Spurred cordon to Guyot depending on zone; yields about 80 hl per hectare
- Vinification
- Dolcetto and Barbera are vinified separately; both ferment in temperature-controlled stainless steel. Dolcetto is dry-fermented with 6 to 8 days on the skins; Barbera is vinified slowly at low temperature, leaving a little residual sugar. Dolcetto gets a very short wood ageing, then the two are blended.
- Serving temperature
- 18 °C
- Storage
- Best about 5 years after the vintage
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