Dolcetto d'Alba - Rivoli


- DENOMINAZIONE:
- DOLCETTO D'ALBA
- EXPOSURE AND ALTITUDE:
- West, 280-320 masl
- GRAPE:
- 100% Dolcetto
- PLACE OF ORIGIN:
- Rivoli di Alba – LANGHE
- TRAINING:
- Guyot, planted in 1980
- VITICULTURE:
- Organic with the sole use of sulphur and copper natural compound, manual or mechanic mowing to avoid herbicides, harvest is exclusively manual.
- VINIFICATION:
- Dolcetto is subject to pressing and destemming then he ferments and macerate one week in stainless steel. At the end of the winter he is brought to the wood barrels where he stays for 6 months. Barrels volume vary between 25 to 50 hectolitres, made of Slavonian wood with an age of 15 years.
- SOIL:
- Marly limestone belonging to the Marne di Sant’Agata fossili sabbiose