Barbaresco Rabajà Riserva DOCG 2004
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Wine Description
This wine is made only in the finest vintages. The grapes are selected from the oldest vines in the prestigious Rabajà cru. After traditional vinification, the wine is aged for 40 months, and refined for an additional three years in bottle before release. This prolonged aging period ensures the perfect balance of tannins, body, fruit and acidity, resulting in a wine with great personality and refinement.
Tasting Notes
Barbaresco Rabajá Riserva offers an intense and ethereal bouquet of plums, prunes, cinnamon, cocoa, tobacco, leather and spice. Dry, and full-bodied, with robust flavors developing on the palate and unveiling this wine's very solid structure and elegance.
Food Pairing
Incredibly long-lived, it is recommended with pot roasts, truffles, polenta with ossobuco, and other rich fare.
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Vineyard & Production Info
- Production area/appellation: Barbaresco DOCG
- Vineyard name: Barbaresco/The Rabajà vineyard
- Vineyard size: 10 acres
- Soil composition: Calcareous clay
- Training method: Guyot
- Elevation: 900 feet
- Vines/acre: 1,800
- Yield/acre: 2.4 tons
- Exposure: Southern/Southwestern
- Year vineyard planted: 1953
- Harvest time: October
- First vintage of this wine: 1971
- Bottles produced of this wine: 6,000
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Winemaking & Aging
- Varietal composition: 100% Nebbiolo
- Fermentation container: Stainless steel tanks
- Length of alcoholic fermentation: 10-12 days
- Fermentation temperature: 84 °F
- Length of maceration: 20-25 days
- Malolactic fermentation: Yes
- Type of aging container: Barrels
- Size of aging container: 1,600-2,500 L
- Age of aging container: New-9 years old
- Type of oak: French and Slavonian oak
- Length of aging before bottling: 4 years
- Length of bottle aging: 3 years
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Analytical Data
- Alcohol: 14.0 %
- pH level: 3.5
- Residual sugar: 1.4 g/L
- Acidity: 6.0 g/L
- Dry extract: 31.0 g/L