Who: Filippo, Laura and Federica Broccardo
Where: Monforte d’Alba, CN, Piedmont, Italy
What: Nebbiolo, Barolo DOCG, Barolo Riserva DOCG
How: Sustainable
Total size: 7500 cases, 14 ha (34 ac)

Paiagallo Barolo DOCG 2018

APPELLATION: Barolo DOCG

GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Nebbiolo from Paiagallo vineyard in the town of Barolo

WINE STYLE: Red Still

FERMENTATION TANKS: Stainless steel 50HL

YEASTS: Indigenous

MACERATION: Destemmed. Extraction technique: delastage and daily pump overs

MALOLACTIC: Completed

AGED IN: Oak big cask (25 hl) and tonneaux

AGED FOR: 20 months + 12 months in bottle (at least)

CLARIFICATION/FILTRATION: Not Clarified / Filtered (cartridge) 10+5 micron.

VEGAN: N/A

TOTAL SO2: mg/l 64 ±4 at the end of malo

BOTTLING DATE: 09/21/2020

ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14%

VINEYARD: Paiagallo

VITICULTURE APPROACH: Sustainable

ALTITUDE: 310-350 m

SOIL: Miocene-Tortonian soil, rich in limestone and potassium oxide, phosphorus, with good permeability.

YEAR PLANTED: 1997 (average)

DENSITY: 4000 vines/hectare

PICK DATE: 10/23/2018

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 2320 bottles