• Vajra G.D. Barolo Chinato
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Vajra Wines Barolo

Vajra

Vajra G.D. Barolo Chinato

Red fortified wine dessert wine aromatised

  • Vajra G.D. Barolo Chinato
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Vajra Wines Barolo
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Denomination Barolo DOCG
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 18.0% by volume
Area Piedmont (Italy)
Grape varieties 85% Nebbiolo
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Description

Barolo Chinato is an ancient Piedmontese digestive. The wine used as a production base is the Barolo Albe DOCG in the current vintage. It is sent to the "chinatura", that is, to the addition of infusions of about thirty herbs, peels and roots of plants, including the China (Cinchona Calisaya), hence the name.

Awards

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    /100

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Perfume

Perfume

It is offered with the freshness typical of our Baroli, with a weave of roses and ripe cherries, on which there is a swing of mountain herbs and orange peel.

Color

Color

Intense ruby red.

Taste

Taste

Rightly bitter and persistent. Beautiful as a digestive or married to bitter chocolate.

Serve at:

14 -16 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Fortified Wines

Pairings

Desserts

Producer
Vajra
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1972
  • Oenologist: Aldo e Giuseppe Vaira
  • Bottles produced: 500.000
  • Hectares: 80
May 1968. Outbreak of student's protest. Aldo Vaira is 15 years old and joins the group of young protesters who flooded the streets of Turin. Perhaps the story would have taken another turn, if Aldo was not discovered by his father and immediately send to Barolo to spend the summer in the grandparents' farm, far away from trouble. Those months spend between the vines and fields ignite the dream: a life spent in the beauty and freedom of nature.

Aldo is still a minor and his counter-current choice is a shock during the years of the economic miracle and of depopulation of the countryside. In 1971 he joins Suolo e Salute, becoming a pioneer of organic farming in Piedmont. The 1972 vintage is harsh. Facing the only apparent possibility to leave the bunches on the vine, Aldo does not give up and vinifies his first bottles. The energy of the beginning is all collected in the note that still is written on the first page of the Marescalchi, the university enology manual: imagination at work.

In the meantime Giuseppe (1985), Francesca (1987) and Isidoro (1990) are born. Gustav Mahler wrote that "the tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the flame." This is the present to our winery. Always made of new dreams, research, discoveries, also sacrifice, life and joy! Read more
Production area: Piedmont
Piedmont
Vajra

Name Vajra G.D. Barolo Chinato
Type Red fortified wine dessert wine aromatised
Denomination Barolo DOCG
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 18.0% by volume
Grape varieties 85% Nebbiolo
Country Italy
Region Piedmont
Vendor Vajra
Story The practice of aromatizing wine was widespread in Egypt, Persia and also in in ancient Rome, the Vermut (born in Turin at the end of the 18th century) has certainly drawn the inspiration from here, and the Barolo Chinato from Vermut. The originality of Barolo Chinato (whose creators were Dr. Cappellano at Serralunga and Zabaldano at Monforte), was to combine a mix of spices to an extraordinary wine which is the Barolo.
Origin Barolo (CN)
Allergens Contains sulphites