Nebbiolo d'Alba - Ca Veja


- DENOMINAZIONE:
- NEBBIOLO D'ALBA
- EXPOSURE AND ALTITUDE:
- East, 280-350 masl
- GRAPE:
- 100% Nebbiolo
- PLACE OF ORIGIN:
- 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 around 1 year and a half. Barrels volume vary between 25 to 50 hectoliters, made of Slavonian wood with an age of 15 years.
- SOIL:
- Marly limestone belonging to the Marne di Sant’Agata fossili sabbiose alternates to Arenarie di Diano easily distinguishable given their yellow color and the bigger sandstones spread in those formations