BAROLA DOCG VIGNETO CHIRLET 2004

Municipality: Monforte d’Alba, Italy

Area of Procuction; Langhe, a hilly zone in the South of Piedmont

Vineyard Exposition: South

Land: clay 33,50, silt 46,50, sand 20, PH 10

Altitude: approx. 300 metres above sea level

Tendrill : Pure Nebbiolo

Under Variety: Michet for 70%, Lampia for the remaining 30%.

Clones: CVT 71, CVT 63, CVT 66, CVT 308, CVT 415, CVT 423, CVT CN 142 VCR 153, VCR 152.

Grafts: 420 A, 157-11 Courderc, 161-49 Courderc, S.O. 4, 1103 Paulsen

Surface Area: about 3 hectares

Vines per Hectare: 5500

Grape Yield per Hectare: 6 tons per hectare

Vine Trellising System: Guyot

Produced bottles: 2266, 75 ml. counted bottles and 30 counted Magnum bottles of ‘2003 vendemmia’. 100 bottles will have an hand-painted label, each one different from the others and unique.

Selling Beginning: February 2008

Vinification: maceration on the skins for approx. 7 days in tanks with temperature control. In a second phase, the grapes are pressed off the skins and alcoholic fermentation is completed in steel tanks for about 10 days. Following the wine is put into 40 % new French barriques and 60 % into used ones, in which the process of malolactic fermentation is made at a temperature of approx. 20° for about 2 months. This barrique process lasts for a period of 18 months. Refining is completed by a further 6 months phase into a big barrel. At last, wine is put into stainless steel tanks to settle and then to be bottled without filtration. These coricate laying bottles still stand for 8 months in the cellar.

Colour: ruby red with garnet reflections

Nose and Taste: fresh scents of small red fruits, rasperries, redcurrant and wild roses which evolve into licorice and spice notes. It has a rich and complex taste due to its numerous tannins and its acidity which give it an elegant note. Barolo Chirlet reminds entirely to the territory characteristics of Monforte.

Recommended Temperature: 17°-18°. It is enjoyable to appreciate the initial freshness and experience the evolution of the wine as it warms up in the glass

Description: when the wine first enters the market, it is fresh and a little austere, but still harmonious and balanced. With time, the wine softens a little, but maintains the initial character for many years, particularly if stored in an ambient place that is fresh and humid without temperature variations.

Alcohol: 14,00 by vol.

Dry Extract g/l: 32,40

Acidity: 5.70

Simone Scaletta Viticoltore in Località Manzoni, 61 di Monforte d’Alba 12065 Italia - Tel. 348-4912733