Produced with the Barbera grapes that come from Dogliani, it is a wine of great character, ruby red in colour with tones of garnet. It has an intense and mature aroma, is full bodied, has a taste of red berries and is refined by the tannins of wood, which renders it soft and complex.
Typology: Barbera
Rootstock: 420 A/S04
Bushiness: 4500 plants/Ha
Plant breeding: Guyot
Zone: Village of Dogliani (Cuneo)
Cru: San Giacomo and San Luigi, 380 m.
Soil: marly-calcareous-clayey ground
Exposure: South/South-East
Area of the vineyard: 2.20 Ha
Year of planting: 1983/2004
The wine making
Fermented in steel and concrete tanks at a controlled Temperature (30°C), racked after 8-10 days, decantations and malolactic completed with Temperature maintenance. It matures for a lot of months in wood, then in bottle.
