2006 Vintage
The Wine
Classic Nebbiolo aromatics of violets and roses, dried herbs, cherries and spices make way for earthy, savoury and dried fruit notes. The palate is powerful with lush acidity. Tarry notes backed with lovely, grainy textured tannins that are round and full complement flavours of preserved, spiced cherries, plums, earth and star anise.
Technical Information
Varietal percentage: 100% Nebbiolo
Picked: 23rd April 2006
Area harvested: 2Ha
Yield: 25Hl/Ha
Average Brix: 24.5
Vinification
The grapes were hand harvested then crushed and de-stemmed. Fermentation is allowed to began immediately, the juice is inoculated with a yeast strain from Barolo (a region famous for producing Nebbiolo). Fermentation lasts for about four days after which the wine is lightly pressed and put into oak barrels where polymerising helps to soften and round the tannins. The wine then goes through malolactic fermentation in barrel where the wine is aged.
Maturation
Type of oak: Gamba, Fontainebleau, Allier, Nevers
Oak age: 15 % new oak
Oak toasting: 100% medium
Fining agent: Light egg white fining
Filtration: gravity
Final analysis
Final alcohol: 14.3% Alc/Vol
Final acid: 6.7 g/L
pH: 3.65
Bottled: November 2006
Released: December 2009
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