Paitin di Pasquero-Elia Campolive Barbera 2018
Piemonte
Regular price $32.99
2018 Serra Barbera
Paitin
Barbaresco, Piemonte
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$32.99 reg
Winery: Campolive is a very steep plot on the border between Serraboella and Bricco di Neive, under the road od the Montà del Bricco. Already named as such from the monks who in the past owned this site: the field of the olive (“campo dell’oliva”). Probably centuries ago dedicated to the olive trees, since its protected and warm position.
Grape: 100% Barbera d'Alba
Vineyard: Serraboella Southwest at 250-270 masl
Origin: Serraboella di Neive e Rivoli di Alba
Soil: Very white soils, with a rather gross and sandy texture respect to higher part of the hill. The subsoil here is the one of the Formazioni di Lequio
Viticulture: Organic with the sole use of sulphur and copper natural compound, manual or mechanic mowing to avoid herbicides, harvest is exclusively manual
Winemaking: Barbera is all vinified with the same philosophy: subject to pressing and destemming then he ferments and macerate two weeks in stainless steel. At the end of the winter he is brought to the wood barrels where he stays for minimum 1 year. Barrels volumes is normally 10 hectoliters, or recent barrels of greater dimensions, made of Slavonian wood