Alberto Voerzio

Barolo DOCG Cru Castagni

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.)
Italy
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Around 90 mg/lt
Vegan Wine

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

ABV:  14.0%

Vineyard:  Alberto Voerzio’s Barolo Cru Castagni comes from biodynamic-practicing estate vineyards in La Morra, S-SE facing at 400-480m altitude. Hand-farmed with extremely low yields of 500-700g per plant, this Nebbiolo thrives on Tortonian blue-grey marl, clay, and fine sand soils.

Cellar: Fruit is hand sorted and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel. The wine ages 24 months in French oak (25% new) of varying sizes, then eight months in stainless. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, with minimal SO2.

CSPC:  889836

Winemakers Note:  []

What the Critics are saying:  []

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Alberto Voerzio
Barolo DOCG Cru Castagni

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Italy
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Around 90 mg/lt
Vegan Wine
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

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

ABV:  14.0%

Vineyard:  Alberto Voerzio’s Barolo Cru Castagni comes from biodynamic-practicing estate vineyards in La Morra, S-SE facing at 400-480m altitude. Hand-farmed with extremely low yields of 500-700g per plant, this Nebbiolo thrives on Tortonian blue-grey marl, clay, and fine sand soils.

Cellar: Fruit is hand sorted and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast in temperature controlled stainless steel. The wine ages 24 months in French oak (25% new) of varying sizes, then eight months in stainless. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, with minimal SO2.

CSPC:  889836

Winemakers Note: []

What the Critics are saying: []

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Italy

Region:  La Morra, Barolo, Piedmont

Appellation:  Barolo DOCG, Castagni Cru, La Morra

Climate: 

Altitude: 

Soils: 

Varietal/Blend:  100% Nebbiolo

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.

Ageing: 

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC:  889836

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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Joe Gurba

780-203-5284

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Kerrie Gavin

306-290-0277

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