Wines / Barbaresco DOCG

Vineyards: Montesommo - Neive
Grape varietal: lampia, sub-variety of nebbiolo
Age: 1972
Cultivation: vertical trellised, Guyot pruning
Altitude: 250 m above sea level

Area: 6,000 mq
Average no. bottles produced: 4,000
Harvest period: end of September
Vinification: in stainless steel, temperature- controlled, automatic pump-over, post-fermentation maceration for 20 days with submerged cap
Ageing: 12-14 months in large Slovenian oak barrels

Lysis: 60 days
Bottle ageing: 6 months

Sensory Profile

Ruby red in colour with light garnet highlights. Great finesse on the nose, harmonious and complex. Sensations of ripe red fruit—typical of Nebbiolo-with spicy undertones. Enveloping tannins, great elegance and persistence on the palate.

Notes

Our production range is rounded off by this great expression of the nebbiolo grape. Like Cogno’s other wines, the Barbaresco is also elegant and structured, but with a fiercely independent character. This isn’t a Barbaresco out to imitate its cousin Barolo, but a wine that demands respect for its full, strong identity, both in the vineyard and in the cellar. Here we have a Barolo producer going against the grain to gamble on Barbaresco, not keeping a distance, but grabbing the chance to come to terms with a historical wine, it too a supreme expression of the Langhe hills. This wine is born of the invaluable collaboration of a friend and producer in Neive. It is thanks to him that the Cogno family has been able to embark on this new adventure.