Pinerolese DOC
Grape Barbera

A thoroughbred Barbera; lean, taut and bright. Floral nose with apple and blackberry-pie aromas. Crunchy strawberry, raspberry and black cherry fruit, ripe with a tart backhander. Pure mineral core, beautiful ethereal high-altitude Barbera. 14.5%

This wine goes well with pasta dishes, like ravioli or cannelloni, boiled meat in general (for the younger versions), with braised, boiled, stews and meat preparations red baked or roasted (for more mature versions).

The vineyard is on mineral-rich red schist, the PH is very low and the altitude high: between 400 and 450 meters. This means that even in the hottest vintages, the wines maintain their freshness, perfect for vigorous grape varieties like Barbera. Their vines are trained using a Guyot system and yield a miserly 3.4 tonnes of grapes per hectare. The harvest is by hand and small crates are used to ensure the grapes arrive undamaged at the cellar. The bunches are de-stemmed and mechanically crushed, fermentation is in temperature controlled tanks and takes a week. Malolactic conversion and ageing is over a seven month period in used French barriques,