Wine Description

The sandy and clayey soils of the southwest-facing Falletto di Serralunga vineyard produce a full and complex Barbera with distinctive personality. After 13 days of skin contact and fermentation in stainless steel, the wine is refined for three months in tanks, 12 months in French oak barriques, and finally matured for four more months in bottle for extra finesse.

Tasting Notes

Deep ruby red in color with violet hues, this Barbera offers an intense, rich and elegant bouquet of sour cherry, plum, and tobacco. Full-bodied, concentrated and ripe on the palate, this is an excellent wine for roasted pork, game, ribs and barbecued meat.

Vineyard Characteristics

Production area/name of vineyard:	The Falletto di Serralunga d'Alba vineyards
Size of vineyard (acres):	7.5
Soil composition:	clay and sand
Training method:	Guyot
Elevation (feet):	1,100
Vines/acre:	1921
Exposure:	Southwestern
Year vineyard planted:	1980

Winemaking & Aging

Varietal composition:	100% Barbera d'Alba
Harvest time:	September
First vintage of this wine:	1960
Number bottles produced of this wine:	9,333
Fermentation
Fermentation container:	stainless steel
Fermentation temperature (°F):	72-77
Length of maceration (days):	13
Aging
Aging container:	French oak and stainless steel tanks
Length of aging before bottling:	3 months in stainless steel tanks and 12 months in oak
Length of bottle aging:	4 months
Analytical Data
Alcohol:	13.5%
pH level:	3.3
Residual sugar (grams/liter):	1.3
Acidity (grams/liter):	6.0
Dry extract (grams/liter):	20

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