Nebbiolo D'alba Doc Bernardina 2017 biologico - Ceretto

Color: Ruby red

Smell: On the nose, recognizable fruit, cherry, currant and small red fruits, rose petals and sweet spices.

Taste: On the palate Eegante with delicate tannin

Food matches: Rich first courses and roasted meats

The Monsordo-Bernardina estate is one of the most suitable places in the Alba area for the production of large Nebbiolo wines. Although sharing with the neighboring area of Barolo, land and climate, for a quibble it was not allowed within the area protected by the prestigious denomination. Today the vineyards around the historic farmhouse offer us high quality grapes. The fermentations in steel and the aging in old wood give us wines of great expressive potential, complex and long-lived, protected by the D.O.C. Nebbiolo d'Alba.

Ceretto

In search of cru, a brilliant intuition Selecting the vineyards in the historically most valid positions was the goal of the two brothers Bruno and Marcello Ceretto. This idea, derived from a trip to Burgundy, would have given reason to the family and made Barolo and Barbaresco wines among the most appreciated in the world. A revolution, at the time, for a territory where the concept of cru was totally unknown, but above all, a brilliant intuition. A real struggle, theirs, undertaken with his father Riccardo, who bought the grapes and then vinified them. "Start a difficult path, the land has never created wealth for anyone" claimed Riccardo, but the stubborn Bruno and Marcello had no doubts "we are one hundred per cent for the land, the cellar certainly has little importance, however great wines do they do with grapes ". So they begin to dream of labels bearing the name of the vineyard and on which his photograph also appears: "so whoever drinks that wine has before his eyes the vineyard from which it comes. The vineyard is history, the names of the hills remain over time, not they change and this reinforces the quality and credibility of the wines produced here. You can always search, visit, touch, a vineyard ". In 1986 The Wine Spectator, perhaps the most influential American magazine in the world of wine, put the two Langhe brothers on the cover calling them Barolo Brothers. Bruno and Marcello are less than 50 years old, but they are not overwhelmed by what is an official consecration, to which all aspire but few manage to obtain. Today they have remained true to themselves, they have not stopped dreaming and fighting for a right goal. Meanwhile, the Langa has grown with them and with those who, like them, put the name of the land that gave birth to them and accompanied them throughout their lives.