Red
Sizzano
By Villa Guelpa, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Sizzano DOC
- Grape
- Nebbiolo 70%, Vespolina and Uva Rara 30%
- Production area
- Vineyards in Sizzano, Alto Piemonte
- Soil
- Coarse terraced alluvial gravel with small lenses of sand
- Exposure
- South to south-south-west
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training, 4,500 vines per hectare, 290 m above sea level
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested in small crates. Soft crushing, spontaneous fermentation and 14 days on the skins. Malolactic fermentation in December, then 24 months in 20 hl Slavonian oak and ageing in bottle.
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