Barbera d'Alba Superiore - Campolive


- DENOMINAZIONE:
- BARBERA D'ALBA SUPERIORE
- EXPOSURE AND ALTITUDE:
- South-West, 250-270 masl
- GRAPES:
- 100% Barbera
- PLACE OF ORIGIN:
- Serraboella di Neive – LANGHE
- TRAINING:
- Guyot, planted in 1970
- VITICULTURE:
- Organic with the sole use of sulphur and copper natural compound, manual or mechanic mowing to avoid herbicides, harvest is exclusively manual
- VINIFICATION:
- Barbera is all vinified with the same philosophy: subject to pressing and destemming then he ferments and macerate two weeks in stainless steel. At the end of the winter he is brought to the wood barrels where he stays for minimum 1 year. Barrels volumes is normally 10 hectoliters, or recent barrels of greater dimensions, made of Slavonian wood
- SOIL:
- Very white soils, with a rather gross and sandy texture respect to higher part of the hill. The subsoil here is the one of the Formazioni di Lequio