Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016

Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016

Pelissero, 0,75 l - 14.50%
100% Nebbiolo

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Price 
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Piedmont - Italy
Red still

How to serve

Serve at:

18 - 20°C.

Decanting time:

1 Hour

Longevity:

Over 25 years

Glass:
Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines
Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016
It is the last born of our Barbaresco wines. The first bottles date back to 2001. It belongs to an historical, traditional and cultural important denomination and it has got all the strength and complexity a great vine is able to express.

Colour

Intense ruby red.

Bouquet

It has both fruity and floreal notes that go from the ripe red fruit to the officinal herbs.

Flavour

Soft, tasty, velvety at the same time, leaves on the taste buds a note of sweetness and roundness typical of ripe grape with a slightly dry and astringent closure that distinguishes the Nebbiolo.

Pairing

Meat
Game
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork

Features

Name Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016
Type Red still
Classification DOCG Barbaresco
Year 2016
Size 0,75 l Standard
Alcohol content 14.50% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Nebbiolo
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
History The blend Nubiola shows in fact the name with which in the historical treaty of agriculture "De Ruralium Commodorum" (dated 1330) where Pier Dè Crescenzi (a jurist of Bologna) mentions one of the best vines known at that time describing it as a "a sort of black grape called Nubiola… wonderfully vinous and adapted for wine making". Now we call that grape Nebbiolo (Nubiola is pronounced with accent on the o).
Origin Treiso (CN)
Climate Altitude: 200-400 m. a.s.l. Exposure: east, south and west depending on the different lots.
Soil composition Different zones in the Barbaresco area with different composition and origin.
Cultivation system Guyot
No. plants per hectare 5,000
Vinification The variety Nebbiolo composing for 100% the Barbaresco wine is the focal point of this wine that we consider the starting Barbaresco, the basis from which to start in order to arrive to the best with our two selections. Just for the different composition of the provenience soils, the consequent used wine making techniques and the historicity we wanted to express with the name, it is a very traditional Barbaresco. It is made in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature and automatically programmed soaking of the wine dregs.
Ageing In wood dosing small barriques and big 50 hl oak cask in variable proportion according to the vintage features always with the intent to exalt the Nebbiolo's variety's characteristics.
Production year 30,000 bottles
Allergens Contains sulphites

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Vintage

Decanter
91/100 
2016
Wine Spectator
92/100 
2016
xtraWine
93/100 
2016
Bibenda
 
4 bunches of grapes - A high quality wine with distinctive character 2017
Veronelli
 
3 red stars - An excellent wine 2017
Vinous
92/100 
2017
Vitae AIS
 
3 vines - An excellent wine 2015
Bibenda
 
4 bunches of grapes - A high quality wine with distinctive character 2013
James Suckling
91/100 
2013
Veronelli
 
3 red stars - An excellent wine 2013
Vinous
91/100 
2013
Vitae AIS
 
3 vines - An excellent wine 2013
Robert Parker
91/100 
2012
Veronelli
 
3 red stars - An excellent wine 2012
Vinous
92/100 
2012
Vitae AIS
 
3 vines - An excellent wine 2012
Bibenda
 
4 bunches of grapes - A high quality wine with distinctive character 2011
Robert Parker
91/100 
2011
Veronelli
 
3 red stars - An excellent wine 2011
Vitae AIS
 
3 vines - An excellent wine 2011
Robert Parker
91/100 
2010
Robert Parker
91/100 
2009
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