Barolo DOCG Cru Castagni

Alberto Voerzio

Alberto's vines in the Castagni cru are a scant 0.7 hectares and he makes the most of them. The wine has an upright posture and warm demeanour. The nose is gorgeous, adorned with pretty red fruit and a garland of flowers, the perfume also shows a hint of very handsome cooperage. This wine ages twenty-four months in top notch French oak of varying sizes (225L, 300L, 1000L) with about 25% of the wine seeing new oak each vintage. The palate is plush in savoury mushroom and spice with a classic tart cherry and floral element offering terrific promise for the patient collector. The texture is especially noteworthy with gentle and complex tannins and a finish of cocoa, cherry, and vanilla bean. It's a very fresh and lifted Barolo showing elements of the site's more northern position. Beautiful. (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  400-480m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged 24 months in French oak (25% new, 75% used) of varying sizes (250L/300L/1000L) followed by eight months in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, S-SE facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 500g-700g per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  889836

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Alberto Voerzio


La Morra, Barolo, Italy

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Barolo DOCG Cru Castagni
Alberto Voerzio

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Alberto's vines in the Castagni cru are a scant 0.7 hectares and he makes the most of them. The wine has an upright posture and warm demeanour. The nose is gorgeous, adorned with pretty red fruit and a garland of flowers, the perfume also shows a hint of very handsome cooperage. This wine ages twenty-four months in top notch French oak of varying sizes (225L, 300L, 1000L) with about 25% of the wine seeing new oak each vintage. The palate is plush in savoury mushroom and spice with a classic tart cherry and floral element offering terrific promise for the patient collector. The texture is especially noteworthy with gentle and complex tannins and a finish of cocoa, cherry, and vanilla bean. It's a very fresh and lifted Barolo showing elements of the site's more northern position. Beautiful. (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

TECHNICAL INFO

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  400-480m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged 24 months in French oak (25% new, 75% used) of varying sizes (250L/300L/1000L) followed by eight months in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, S-SE facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 500g-700g per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  889836

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

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Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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Barolo DOCG Cru Castagni
Alberto Voerzio
Alberto's vines in the Castagni cru are a scant 0.7 hectares and he makes the most of them. The wine has an upright posture and warm demeanour. The nose is gorgeous, adorned with pretty red fruit and a garland of flowers, the perfume also shows a hint of very handsome cooperage. This wine ages twenty-four months in top notch French oak of varying sizes (225L, 300L, 1000L) with about 25% of the wine seeing new oak each vintage. The palate is plush in savoury mushroom and spice with a classic tart cherry and floral element offering terrific promise for the patient collector. The texture is especially noteworthy with gentle and complex tannins and a finish of cocoa, cherry, and vanilla bean. It's a very fresh and lifted Barolo showing elements of the site's more northern position. Beautiful. (This wine is unfined & unfiltered and may therefore throw a natural deposit with age.)

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Climate:  Uniquely Piemontese

Altitude:  400-480m

Soils:  Totonian soils of blue-grey marl, mixed clay, and very fine sands

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

Fermentation:  Fruit is carefully hand sorted. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel.

Ageing:  Aged 24 months in French oak (25% new, 75% used) of varying sizes (250L/300L/1000L) followed by eight months in stainless steel. SO2 is added as needed but never exceeds even half of the appellations allowable amount. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered. It may therefore throw a natural deposit as it ages.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic practicing (uncertified) estate vineyards in La Morra village of Barolo, S-SE facing, on Tortonian soils. Farmed entirely by hand by Alberto. Trellised, manual pruning, guyot system leaving 2 buds on the spur and 5-6 buds on the fruiting head. 2x green harvest for concentration before veraison. Yield of only 500g-700g per plant. Fertilization with strictly natural manure is carried out only after the harvest, before the vines enter vegetative rest. No herbicides are used; the weeds are cut. Harvest is by hand and begins in the last ten days of September. 6500 vines/ha.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  889836

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