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Location: Castiglione Falletto (CN)
Hectares (estate-owned): 1.75
Altitude: from 312 to 340m a.s.l.
Facing: south
Soil: 59% clay, 20,50% silt, 20,50% sand; pH 8
Special characteristic: phosphor-rich soil
Year of planting: 1978
Grape-variety: Nebbiolo (Michet and Lampia)
Stock: 420A
Plants per hectare: 4300
Buds per hectare: 35000
The floating-cap fermentation in steel tanks lasts 7/8 days; then the cap is
submerged for a brief maceration (8/10 days). The temperature is strictly kept
to 28/30°C. Following the malolactic fermentation (December), the wine is
transferred into French oak barriques for the ageing envisaged by the regulations.
Delicate and harmonious in certain respects, and powerful and robust in others,
this is a demanding, complex, elegant wine. Its grandeur shows through already
just a few months after bottling, and gradually increases as the flowery aromas
of its youth give way to ethereal spices, chocolate and truffle.
7.000
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