Langhe Nebbiolo - Starda

Langhe Nebbiolo
STARDA

Starda is a name of an ancient family of notary, after them was named an house and a small street that runs along the bottom of Serraboella. The soil of the bottom of Serraboella, more sandy and fresher gives gentle nebbiolos but preserving their superior class. From some years in the Starda the nebbiolo is not only from Serraboella but from the sandier part of Ca veja too, another famous plot we own in Alba.

DENOMINAZIONE:
LANGHE NEBBIOLO
EXPOSURE AND ALTITUDE:
South-West in Serraboella at 250-270 masl, East in Ca Veja at 280-320 masl
VITIGNO:
100% Nebbiolo
PLACE OF ORIGIN:
Serraboella di Neive e Ca Veja 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:
Nebbiolo is all vinified with the same philosophy: subject to pressing and destemming then he ferments and macerate from 3 to 6 weeks in stainless steel. At the end of the winter he is brought to the wood barrels where he stays from 6 months to 1 year. Barrels volume vary between 25 to 50 hectoliters, made of Slavonian wood with an age of 15 years
SOIL:
We used the nebbiolo from the lower elevation and sandier soil. They are always soil Marly limestone belonging to the Marne di Sant’Agata fossili sabbiose in the case of Serraboella and Arenarie di Diano for what concerns Ca Veja