Description
Langhe Nebbiolo 2018 L’Astemia Pentita
Variety: Nebbiolo 100%
Pale ruby red color.
The nose is intense with clean and defined aromas. Violet is distinguished, and then among the fruits the plum with red currant. Wild berries, Mediterranean scrub, and the rhubarb that hovers around. Overall it is fine and elegant.
On the palate it is properly animated by tannins and assisted by freshness and minerality. In short, a structure of thickness and relief, suitable for supporting the plurality of softness. Deep and persistent, while releasing aromas of flowers, spices and cinchona.
Overall, Langhe Nebbiolo is a wine that represents the ductility of the vine, capable of being satisfactory even when it does not age for long.
Astemia Pentita produces Langhe Nebbiolo by combining grapes from various prestigious vines, mostly of a young age. While waiting for them to be ready to produce the most prestigious Crus, they come together to create a complex and exuberant wine, but ready to be tasted.
Langhe Nebbiolo 2018 L’Astemia Pentita
Soil: it is composed of sandstone marls of calcareous matrix with clay and considerable presence of sand.
Training system: espalier with guyot pruning.
The harvest is carried out manually in small boxes, during which the quality selection of the grapes is carried out.
After a short cold pre-fermentation maceration, it carries out the alcoholic fermentation at a controlled temperature of 24-26 ° C in stainless steel containers.
Refines in 500-liter French oak tonneaux for a variable period of 12-14 months. After bottling it rests in the cellars for a further 6 months.
