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)

Ravera Barolo DOCG 2018

APPELLATION: Barolo DOCG

GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Nebbiolo from Ravera vineyard in the town of Novello

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: 14.50%

VINEYARD: Ravera

VITICULTURE APPROACH: Sustainable

ALTITUDE: 310-350 m

SOIL: The soil is a very complex. Marls of Tortonian origin mix with clays and sandstones of the Serravallian period.

YEAR PLANTED: 1997 (average)

DENSITY: 4000 vines/hectare

PICK DATE: 10/13/2018

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 3050 bottles