Features
Name:
Barolo Riserva della Casa DOCG 2012
Terrain:
rich in clay and limestone, very compact and impermeable
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
Grapes come from vineyards having soils particularly rich in clay and limestone, which, to the eye, look like Terre Bianche. This kind of soil, very compact and impermeable, forces vines to root themselves in depth in search of water. The result is particularly sparse bunches with berries of small size that give the wines an abundance of minerals, trace elements and a rich heritage of tannins, able to ensure a great longevity.
Organoleptic characteristics:
The color is deep garnet red, with the passing of the years gradually permeated by orange reflections.
The bouquet is intense with clean scents of violet, rose and spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, which, with the passage of time, evolve into tobacco, leather, truffle.
The taste is elegant, dry, austere but velvety, harmonic, enveloping, with abundant tannins, well expressed, but soft and pleasing.
Storage time:
9-25 years old
Vinification
Gentle pressing and destemming; fermentation, at controlled temperature, in thermo-conditioned tanks.
Maceration on the skins with periodic soft pumping over for about 10 days.
Malolactic fermentation in vitrified cement vats at a controlled temperature of about 22°.
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