Ceretto Langhe Arneis Blangè 2023

Description

Blangè accounts for 12% of the Arneis produced in Piedmont. One falls in love with Blangè, like a beautiful woman forever young. Born in 1985, Arneis Blangè was among the first big bets of Bruno and Marcello Ceretto. This wine is difficult to think of as a white, in the great moment of reds, for Ceretto; however, it was a brilliant intuition. The first plot was purchased on the hills of Vezza d'Alba, where the rare native vine would give much more than a new label to the collection. This fruity white, with its light perlage, now appreciated worldwide, is a wine that evokes a concept of elegance in its curious French name. Over the years, Blangè has become the emblem of the Ceretto brothers' intuition and creativity. The term Blangè derives from 'boulanger', the French baker who settled near Cherasco in ancient times. So, tangible things, simple gestures and ideas starting with the 'shameless' label created by Milanese designer Silvio Coppola to reveal, as if through a seductive slit, the intense soul of Blangè.

Details

Perfume

It recalls scents of lemon apple, citron peel, almond and yeast.

Color

Bright straw.

Taste

Mouth full of lively freshness, citrusy, with nice taste rhythm. Moreover, it pairs well with mixed fried fish.

Serve at:

10 - 12 °C.

Longevity:

03 - 05 years

Producer

Producer

Ceretto

From this winery

• Start up year: 1937
• Oenologist: Alessandro Ceretto
• Bottles produced: 900.000
• Hectares: 105

When UNESCO added the vineyard landscape of Langhe-Roero to the list of World Heritage Sites in 2014, we saw this as confirmation of an insight that had revealed itself more than half a century earlier. The Ceretto winery was founded in the 1930s: Riccardo Ceretto, who did not own any vineyards, produced wine from grapes he purchased. The turning point came when his sons Bruno and Marcello joined the business, with their innovative thinking for the time: the importance of the soil.

Though this seems obvious today, memories of the poverty of rural life in the Langhe region - described so well by Beppe Fenoglio in his novel “La Malora” (“Ruin”) - were still fresh, and Riccardo was reluctant to invest in purchasing land. But Bruno and Marcello had the vineyards of Burgundy in mind, which had been producing excellent wines for over a century thanks to a model that considered the characteristics of each vineyard - the French word cru is still used today. In the 1960s, Bruno and Marcello started mapping out the land that produced the best wines, and buying the vineyards. They would never leave the region again: 2020 was Marcello’s sixtieth grape harvest and he spent it in the vineyards, among the rows of vines that he knows so well, picking grapes and chatting with his fellow harvesters about the rain, the scorching heat, problems affecting the vines, staying out in the countryside until it was time to take the crates full of grapes back to the cellar.

The land that Bruno and Marcello have handed down to their children has been masterfully preserved. With dreams of Burgundy well in the past, our vineyards now stand as a model in the eyes of the world. And so we are looking to the future: our family is a group with a shared vision, we make decisions together, guided by respect for expertise: we give those who have something to contribute - to the company, and to the territory - the tools to achieve that vision.

Every single project we undertake bears our genetic imprint and expresses the same values. Everything is culture: from award-winning gastronomy at Piazza Duomo to traditional Piedmontese cuisine at La Piola, and our art projects. The Chapel by Sol Lewitt and David Tremlett, in a Barolo Brunate vineyard at La Morra, places art in an agricultural landscape, elevating and celebrating it: there is an educational element, not direction from above but contamination from below. The same applies to our pursuit of environmental sustainability in the vineyards and in the cellars: we do not think of ourselves as being in competition with other wine producers, but we take pride in proving that even when you cultivate many hectares you can still respect the environment. Our mission is to open up new paths. Read more

Piedmont

Pairings

Pasta

Fish

Shellfish

Cheese

White fish

Technical Sheet

Name	Ceretto Langhe Arneis Blangè 2023
Type	White still
Denomination	Langhe DOC
Vintage	2023
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	13.0% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Arneis
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Vendor	Ceretto
Origin	Alba, Vezza d'Alba, Castellinaldo and Castagnito (Cuneo).
Climate	Altitude: 210 - 290 m. a.s.l.
Soil composition	51% clay, 18% sand and 31% silt.
Plants per hectare	4,300.
Wine making	Cryomaceration for 40%, with different times and temperatures depending on the evaluation of the state of the grapes. Everything is then followed using new techniques in cold processing in steel tanks. The temperature is controlled through a central computerised system, which guarantees a homogenous development of the wine as it evolves, closely intervening in the biometabolism of the yeasts themselves.
PH	8.0
Allergens	Contains sulphites