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Manzone Giovanni
Manzone Barolo Gramolere Riserva DOCG
Piedmont · Italy·Vintage 2015
Critics
Tasting note
Intense and harmonic with cherry and raspberry fruit notes. Spicy with a balsamic finish. Lively ruby red with a complex structure. Sapid, full bodied with an excellent tannic balance.
The wine
- Grape
- Nebbiolo
- Style
- Red
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Manzone family (Giovanni, Mauro, Mirella Manzone)
- Vine age
- Over 50 years
- Vinification
- Hand-harvested mid/late October. Spontaneous fermentation with 30–40 days' skin maceration and gentle pump-overs (soft wetting of the cap).
- Ageing
- 5 years in casks plus a few months in steel tanks; bottled during the waning moon; released c. 7 years after harvest, only in top vintages.
- Soil
- Calcareous and sandy, rich in stones and fossils (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.