Achille
It is located in the area of Costigliole d’Asti (250 m above the sea level), The vineyard was planted around 1928 with mostly different biotypes of Barbera and Nebbiolo. The breeding type is mostly on espaliers even if some plants are gobelet breeded. In the vegetative time,thanks to current structures, the plants are located so as to avoid any topping and to make the leaves grow longer until the end of the season. The harvest season is one of the most difficult time of the year for our wines. The grape harvesting is done by hand by means of a strict grape selection.
The bunches, which have been selected and collected in baskets,are sorted. Thanks to some natural yeast, spontaneous fermentation takes place in wooden barrels. During fermentation one sole fulling process ( batonage) is carried out. Wine fermentation can last from 6 to 9 weeks, then wine is aged in wooden barrels for about 30/36 months. No oenological intervention is applied during the cellar phase, not even any SO2 is used.
