Pinot Nero Carillo 2023

Description

Still organic red from Oltrepò Pavese, 12.5% ABV, produced by Frecciarossa. 2023 vintage. A Pinot Noir born from the passion of the Odero family, winemakers since 1919. Intense, with notes of spice and red berries, a wine that tells the story of a region and a family that has made quality its hallmark. Bright ruby red color. Fruity, harmonious, and fragrant with a refreshing freshness. Fully varietal, a wine that best expresses the characteristics of Pinot Noir.

Details

Perfume

Intense, with notes of spices and small red fruits.

Color

Brilliant ruby red colour.

Taste

Fruity, harmonious and fragrant with good freshness. Fully varietal.

Serve at:

14 -16 °C.

Longevity:

05 - 10 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Frecciarossa

From this winery

• Start up year: 1919
• Oenologist: Gianluca Scaglione, Cristiano Garella
• Bottles produced: 90.000
• Hectares: 21

My great grandfather, Mario Odero came back to Italy shortly after WW 1. He was originally from Genoa but spent most of his adult life in England, working the coal trade between the UK and Italy. Since he had absolutely no desire to move back to the city he’d left in the first place, he set his mind on buying property in the countryside, and, for a native Genoese, Oltrepò Pavese is an obvious choice. It proved a rather good one, as the old boy fell in love with its rolling hills and vineyards.

He bought a beautiful 19th century mansion on top of a hill, exotically named «Frecciarossa,» which means «red arrow» in Italian. He wasn’t to know that the fancy moniker was actually the result of a bureaucratic blunder… The original name in the local dialect of the area was «fraccia rossa,» or «red landslide,» thus named because of the color and nature of the soil. The terrain here is mostly clay with veins of iron ore and retains great amounts of water underground. These, in turn, cause frequent landslides. The expression was mistakenly translated as «Frecciarossa» at the local registry, at the turn of the last century, and has remained the name of our hill ever since.

Enter Giorgio Odero, Mario’s son, my grandfather. I remember him from my childhood as a sort of modern day renaissance man. He seemed to know everything about everything and when he didn’t, he’d go rummaging through his vast library to find the answer. He was also a gourmet and a fine wine connoisseur with a taste for opera and literature. However, to get back to the early days of Frecciarossa, Giorgio, like his father, fell in love with the land and decided to study agriculture in order to take an active part in the wine making. After graduating, he developed an interest for Pinot Noir and went to France to get some first hand experience, because when it comes to Pinot Noir, the French were, and still are ahead of the game.

He learned a lot, both in Burgundy and Champagne, and returned to Italy with new ideas and very high standards of quality. Frecciarossa started to sell wine in bottles, a rarity at the time. As a matter of fact, film director, Alfred Hitchcock drank a few at Villa D’Este and had the good grace to tell Giorgio, how much he enjoyed them. By the 1920s, Frecciarossa was already a well established name, far beyond the confines of Oltrepò Pavese. When Prohibition ended in the States, in 1933, Frecciarossa was among the first Italian wines to appear on the American market and was issued Export Permit n. 19, i.e., the nineteenth Italian product to be granted the right to sell in the U.S.

My mother, Margherita, started working with my grandfather in the late ’70s, with equal passion and determination. In the ’90s, she renovated the cellars and hired the help of oenologist, Franco Bernabei. He was replaced in 2000 by Gianluca Scaglione, who is still with us today and has become an integral part of our team, along with Cristiano Garella. I came back to this land a few years ago. It felt like home to me, and I love it just like the generations who bestowed it on me. (Valeria Radici Odero) Read more

Lombardy

Technical Sheet

Name	Frecciarossa Pinot Nero Dell' Oltrepo Pavese Carillo 2023
Type	Red organic still
Denomination	Pinot Nero dell'Oltrepò Pavese DOC
Vintage	2023
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	12.5% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Pinot Nero
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Vendor	Frecciarossa
Origin	First hills of Casteggio
Climate	Altitude: 120 m. a.s.l. Exposure: North-East, South-West.
Soil composition	Clay-limestone.
Cultivation system	Simple Guyot
Plants per hectare	5000
Yield per hectare	1 .2 kg per strain.
Harvest	After a light thinning out in mid-July, manual harvesting in 17 kg crates with meticulous selection of the best bunches
Fermentation temperature	Below 26 °C
Wine making	Soft destemming followed by spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature of less than 26 °C. Maceration for 8 days. During maceration, pumping over or punching down depending on fermentation kinetics. Malolactic fermentation in steel.
Aging	6 months in stainless steel tanks. After bottling, at least 2 months of further ageing before release.
Total acidity	5.6 gr/L
Dry extract	26.0 gr/L
Allergens	Contains sulphites