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LANGHE NEBBILOLO DOC AUTIN ‘D MADAMA 2007

Municipality: Monforte d’Alba, Italy

Area of production: 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 30%, Lampia for 70%.

Clones: CVT 71, CVT 63, CVT 66, CVT CN 142, VCR 153,VCR 152

Grafts: 420 A, 161-49 Courderc, S.O.4

Surface Area: about 1 hectar

Vines per Hectar: 5500

Grape Yield per Hectar: 7 tons per hectare

Vine Trellising System: Guyot

Produced Bottles: about 5000

Selling Beginning: September

Vinification: maceration on the skins for approx. 6 days in rotary fermentors with temperature control. The grapes are then pressed off the skins and the alcoholic fermentation is completed in steel tanks in about 15 days. The wine is now put into second and third phase French barriques in which the malolactic fermentation takes place maintaining the 20° temperature for 2 months. After this fermentation, the wine stands for other 6 months. This refining process in wood ends when the wine is put into big barrels for further 4 months. The wine remains in barrique for a total of 12 months and is then put into stainless steel tanks to settle and then to be bottled without filtration and fining. Before selling, the wine stands in the bottles for 3 months

Colour: intense ruby with garnet reflections

Nose and Taste: fresh aromas of roses and red fruits, medium bodied. It is round and delicate and gives harmony to the typical complexity of Nebbiolo and to a pleasant freshness as a result of the brief time in wood and bottle. The further time in bottle will define its peculiar taste and complexity for approx. 10 years.

Recommended Temperature: 15°-16°. It is enjoyable to appreciate the initial freshness and experience the evolution of the wine as it warms up in the glass

Description: recommended to drink now to 9-10 years

Alcohol: 14.00 by vol.

Dry Extract g/l: 28,50

Acidity: 5.40

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