Nebbiolo d’Alba
Appellation: Nebbiolo d’Alba, DOC
Type: Red, dry
Varietal: 100% Nebbiolo
Certified Organic
Wine Details:
Tasting Notes:
Color: Bright garnet red color.
Bouquet: Intense, with notes of violet, dark cherry, and scents of pepper and eucalyptus.
Taste: Flavors of dried cherries, rose petal, strawberries, tobacco, resinous herbs, and truffle. Balanced acidity and very approachable.
Food Pairing: Roasted lamb, game and dry cheeses.
Vinyard Notes:
Production Zone: Roero, Cuneo.
Vineyard: The vineyard extends for about three acres on the left bank of the Tanaro river. The vineyard is bio-dynamically fertilized.
Soil:Sandy-clayey with gray-bluish marl resurfacing, alkaline pH.
Elevation: 250 meters (820 feet) a.s.l.
Exposure: East and west.
Vine age: 30+ years old.
Density: 5,000 vines per hectare.
Training System: Vertical trellised.
Pruning: Guyot.
Winemaking Notes:
Harvest: Mid-October by hand.
Vinification: 25 to 35-day maceration in stainless steel tanks with 6-7 daily pump-overs. Racking into French oak barrels where malolactic conversion takes place.
Aging: 12-months in 25 hl oak barrels and 6 months in bottle.