Wine Vite Colte, “San Nicolao”, Barbera d’Asti DOCG, 2020

Description

Aurelian – large, fortified stone walls of the manor, built in the XVI century. Its owner was the Count Ettore Spinola from Genoa, who ordered the pitch around the estate vineyards. Since then it has produced wines that have great elegance, richness and consistently high quality.
Grown here Cortese grape variety gives very good results in the lime-marl soils are not too hot climate. These features allow the grapes to reach the terroir typical of the sort of high acidity, and winemakers are doing everything to keep it in the vinification. After carefully pressing the must is fermented at 15-16 C for ten days, cooled and poured into the bottle, leaving the wine to mature until the following spring. Thus preserved freshness and rich flavor Cortese.

Economy Terre Da Vino – one of the most unusual in the Italian association of Piedmont because it is a cooperative of 14 large and small wine producers. Founded in 1980, today Terre Da Vino takes about 3,900 hectares of land on which to grow grapes DOC wines and DOCG. The importance of management allows to involve larger specialist agronomists and enologists. So, vineyards Terre Da Vino experts supervise agricultural department of the University of Turin and the Piedmont winemakers association.