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Manzone Giovanni
Manzone Barolo Gramolere DOCG
Piedmont · Italy·Vintage 2020
Critics
Tasting note
A finely textured Barolo, showing cherries, berries and mild hazelnuts with just a hint of citrus and good sapidity. Medium-bodied with fine tan-nins and a beautiful finish. Really builds on the palate.
The wine
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Style
- Red
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Manzone family (Giovanni, Mauro, Mirella Manzone)
- Vine age
- About 35 years
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested mid/late October. Spontaneous fermentation with 30–40 days' skin maceration and gentle pump-overs.
- Ageing
- About 3 years in barrels plus a few months in concrete tanks; bottled during the waning moon; released c. 5 years after harvest.
- Soil
- Sandy, rich in stones and fossils (producer PDF: calcareous-sandy) — Gramolere MGA, Monforte d'Alba; S–SW exposure
The producer
Manzone Giovanni
Monforte d’Alba · Barolo, PiedmontFounded 1925approx. 8.5 ha of vineyardmanzonegiovanni.com
The Manzone family has farmed the same land in Monforte d'Alba since 1925, now in its fifth generation with Giovanni, Mauro and Mirella. Around 8.5 hectares on the Gramolere and Castelletto hills are worked without herbicides or chemical fertilisers, with spontaneous fermentations, long macerations and bottling on the waning moon. Giovanni also rescued the rare Rossese Bianco grape, gaining it DOC recognition after 30 years of work.