Name: Barolo Monvigliero riserva
Appelation: Barolo DOCG
Year: 2011
Grapes: Nebbiolo 100%
Alcohol: 14,5% 0.75L
Colour: Dense garnet red.
Bouquet & Palate : Opens on pure ripe raspberry notes with mineral, herbaceous and conifer tones. Solid structure with rumbling tannins and long, solid finishServing Temperature: serve at about 18 °C.
Soil type: The white soil is mainly chalky clay, known as the “Marne di Sant’Agata” (30% sand – 55% clay – 15% limestone). From this kind of soil we obtain very elegant and fragrant wines, with a great potential ageing.
Vinification: The grapes are handpicked , sorting only the best bunches and placing them into a 20 kilos baskets. The harvest took place on October 10th 2008. The maceration in steel tank lasted for 35 days, with regular punching down of the cap and, at the end of the alcoholic fermentation, we used the traditional technique of the “submerged cap” to continue with a static maceration.The wine was aged for 44 months in Slavonian oak and 1 months in steel tank, followed by 18 months in bottles lying down prior to its release