Red
Ciabot della Luna Barbera
By Voerzio Martini, Barolo, Piemonte, Italy
Barbera d'Alba Superiore from La Morra, 100% Barbera planted in 1978, aged in 250 L French oak barriques.
Tasting notes
Intense ruby red with purple shades. Full, rich, ample nose with abundant red fruit, mainly plum and blackberry, ending in fresh jam. Warm, vigorous, rich in sweet and fruity notes, with a harmony of vinous and fresh hints and a long finish of vanilla and pomegranate.
Technical details
- Style
- Red
- Denomination
- Barbera d'Alba DOC Superiore
- Grape
- Barbera 100%
- Cru / vineyard
- Ciabot della Luna
- Production area
- La Morra
- Soil
- Marne of Sant'Agata: mixed clay, fine sand and limestone. Altitude 440 m (Italian page).
- Exposure
- South East
- Vineyard planting
- Planted 1978, Guyot training, 6,000 vines per hectare. Four or five manual green harvests thin the crop.
- Vinification
- Hand harvest in small crates. Fermentation with emerged cap in stainless steel tanks for 14 to 15 days with temperature and oxygen control; post-fermentation operations under nitrogen. After malolactic fermentation, aged in 250 L French oak barriques (60% new, 40% second passage), with the last two months in stainless steel before bottling. Dry extract 32 g/L.
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