Features
Name:
Barolo DOCG "Tradition" 2018
Terrain:
calcareous clayey soils interspersed with compact layers of sandstone and covered by quartz sands and fine silt
Winery
Abbona family produces high quality wines, continuing, year after year, the work started by the Marquises of Barolo more than two centuries ago
There is a thread which binds people, vineyards, cellars and bottles: the knowledge and the passion of producing wines which respect the unique characteristics of this marvelous territory with a very high wine vocation.
Anna and Ernesto Abbona, together with their children Valentina and Davide, are the faithful interpreters of the diversity of places, vineyards and vines.
They rigorously respect and preserve their typicality by vinifying grapes coming from their vineyards and from contributing winemakers selected in many years of activity, favoring the location and the cultivation capacity of each single vineyard.
Description
Barolo DOCG "Tradizione" 2018 from the Marchesi di Barolo winery is a red wine with a vigorous but balanced character, produced with grapes from vineyards located on hills of good slope characterized by calcareous clay soils interspersed with compact sandstone layers and covered with quartzose sands and fine silt.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Intense garnet red color, with ruby red nuances.
The bouquet is intense and persistent with clean scents of spices, cinnamon, absinthe, tobacco and wild rose.
The taste is full and elegant, with soft and enveloping tannins.
Spicy and woody flavors blend perfectly.
Storage time:
over 10 years
Vinification
Gentle pressing and destemming; fermentation, at controlled temperature, in thermo-conditioned tanks.
Maceration on the skins for about 8 days with periodic soft pumping over.
Malolactic fermentation in glass-lined cement vats.
Acknowledgements
2017 Decanter World Wine Awards silver medal
2017 Wine Enthusiast 94/100
2017 Luca Gardini Notes 93/100
2016 Wine Enthusiast 90/100
2014 Berliner Wein Trophy gold medal
2014 Mundus wines gold medal
