Barbaresco Gallina 2015 - Cantina del Pino

Color: Intense and consistent garnet red

Smell: Delicate wine with fruity hints of red berries.

Taste: good acid freshness and silky tannins. Persistent with saline notes on the finish.

Food matches: Cheese, mushrooms, white and red meats

Vineyards: This cuvée is produced only in the most promising vintages. It comes from the vinification of part of two 
vineyards located in the MGA Gallina.
Production Area: Municipality of Neive.
Vineyard exposure: South and South West
Soil: Limestone limestone with sand veins.
Altitude: 250m a.s.l.
Vinification: Complete destemming. Alcoholic fermentation at controlled temperature.
Maceration of about 40 days. Malolactic fermentation completed in steel.
Alcohol content: about 14.5%.
Aging: 24 months in oak barrels followed by 18 months in
Closure: Portuguese natural cork stopper (NDtech technology

Cantina del Pino

The Cantina del Pino is located in Barbaresco on the top of the hill overlooking the Ovello vineyard and for about a century it has belonged to the Vacca family. Family members have been dedicated to viticulture for several generations. In 1997 Renato Vacca decided together with his father Adriano to leave the Produttori del Barbaresco cooperative and start making wine on his own. The symbol of the estate is the maritime pine that dominates the Ovello hill, planted at the end of the 19th century by Domizio Cavazza, "father" of Barbaresco and previous owner of the estate. The cellar was in fact purchased by Renato's great-grandfather when the Cavazza family moved to Turin in the 1920s.