Costacurta. Ghemme

Ghemme DOCG
Grape: Nebbiolo

A wonderfully balanced vintage: loose, full cherry and plum fruit, some spice and vanilla peeking through; fine ripe herb and blood orange, rich and powerful.  Quite delicious, unusually friendly.  14%

Vigneti Costacurta producer page

Ghemme is one of the great old Nebbiolo towns of the Alto Piemonte.  The vineyards are freshened by the winds from the Monte Rosa, which blow unhindered over the north-south ridge left by the retreating Monte Rosa glacier, which deposited a wonderfully complex terroir, making this an extremely rare example of Nebbiolo grown on fluvio-glacial soils.  
The vines were planted in 2008, a third was re-planted in 2019 (not yet in production) with the local Cobianco clone.  The grapes are hand-picked and taken to the winery in small crates.  The bunches are de-stemmed, and fermented with the skins for 3 weeks, using selected yeasts and regular pumping over.  The wine then matures for 2 years in a 10hl and a 5hl botti, both made by Garbellotto, using untoasted French oak.  This wine was bottled without filtration.