This wine is deep garnet red with amber-coloured highlights. It has an expansive nose, with notes of roses, violets, fruits of the forest, chocolate, vanilla and black pepper.
On the mouth it is soft and silky, with tannins that are still young without being aggressive, and a backdrop of fine minerality showing floral and balsamic notes.
Product Name: Barolo DOCG Rocche dell’Annunziata
Cépage: Nebbiolo
Appellation: Barolo
Classificaton: DOCG
Colour: Red
Type: Still
Country/Region: Italy, Piedmont
Vintage: 2018
Alcohol percentage: 14.5%
Ageing: 36 months, 18 of which in big oak casks of French and Austrian wood
Number of bottles produced: 6,905 (750 ml) + 503 (magnums 1500 ml) + 30 (magnums 3000 ml)
Date of Bottling: 24/02/2022 (L.B22) and 16/03/2022 (L.C22)
Wine-making: according to tradition: fairly lengthy fermentations on the skins (submerged cap for 15-20 days), with frequent breaking up of the cap and pumping over of the must, followed by maturing in oak casks holding between 2,500 and 3,500 litres.
Temperature: controlled (27° – 28° C)
Lenght: 15-20 days
Malolactic: done in concrete
Ageing: traditional, 18 months in big oak casks
Age of barrels: 1-20 years
Wood type: French oak (Allier and Nevers) and Austrian oak (Manhartsberg e Weidling)
Barrels type: big casks
Level of toast: not toasted
Aging time in wood: 18 months
Minimum ageing in bottle: 6 months
Soil: calcareous
Exposure: South – South-West
Date of Harvest: 25-26/09/2018