Giuseppe Cortese

Langhe Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo

Tasting Notes

Pale garnet in color, this wine offers delicately layered aromas of dried red cherries, plums, cola and sweet spice. On the palate, the wine is perfectly structured with integrated, fine-grained tannins and lively acidity, which along with its rich flavors, evolve into a sumptuously long finish.

Food Pairing

Ideal with robustly flavored cheese or braised beef dishes.

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Tasting Notes

Food Pairing

Ideal with robustly flavored cheese or braised beef dishes.

Brand Materials

Tech Sheet Bottle Shot Acclaim

90+

“The 2016 Langhe Nebbiolo is a smooth and silky wine that is immediately attractive and highly versatile, especially with pasta or easy meat dishes. This is a clean, ruby colored expression with a fragrant bouquet that shows a very evident floral signature with rose hip and dried lavender. This finish here is zesty, bright and teeming with energy.”

POINTS

“Quite reductive at first, but it opens up to show raspberries, cedar and cloves. Medium body, fresh acidity and a zesty finish. Drink now.”

James Suckling

POINTS

“Giuseppe Cortese offers an easy-drinking and informal expression of Nebbiolo in the 2015 Langhe Nebbiolo. The wine is light in appearance with a pretty shade of ruby intensity. The nose shows dried berries and grilled herbs with softer touches of smoke and licorice at the back.”

Vineyard & Production Info

Production area/appellation:

Langhe DOC

Vineyard name:

The Rabajà vineyard

Vineyard size:

2.5 acres

Soil composition:

Calcareous and Clay

Training method:

Guyot

Elevation:

900 feet

Vines/acre:

1,800

Yield/acre:

2.8 tons

Exposure:

Southwestern

Year vineyard planted:

1988-1993

Harvest time:

October

First vintage of this wine:

1971

Bottles produced of this wine:

6,000

Winemaking & Aging

Time on its skins:

Maceration length:

Varietal composition:

100% Nebbiolo

Fermentation container:

Stainless steel tanks

Length of alcoholic fermentation:

10-11 days

Fermentation temperature:

82-84 °F

Maceration technique:

Pumpovers

Malolactic fermentation:

Yes

Type of aging container:

Barrels

Size of aging container:

17-26 hl

Type of oak:

Slavonian

Length of aging before bottling:

12 months

Age of Aging Container:

New-Nine years

Length of bottle aging:

3-4 months

Total SO2:

Analytical Data

Acidity:

6 g/L

Alcohol:

14.6 %

Dry extract:

28.3 g/L

Total SO2:

Residual sugar:

0.4 g/L

About the Vineyard

Extending as far as the Trifolera hill, the Rabajà vineyard stretches over the top of the hill that extends from Asili to Trifolera. Contrary to what is looks like from a distance, the Rabajà hill is not homogeneous and can be divided into two areas. The first, bordering on Asili, coincides with the charming amphitheater dominating the Martinenga and is mostly exposed to south-west. The second one has a more linear appearance and is exposed to south, although there are some variations due to the hill’s undulating ground. In both cases, the wine’s style is definitely more full-bodied and firmer compared with Asili and Martinenga (although the second area tends, at times, to yield a stiffer and more mineral wine).

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