Langhe Rosso Luigi Einaudi, Poderi Luigi Einaudi

LANGHE ROSSO

D.O.C.

A high quality wine which improves over the years, of intense garnet red colour, with a pleasing aroma of cooked plums and blackberries, with an underlying hint of vanilla. It has a full body, a rich tannic structure, soft with an intense fruity taste and a balanced, elegant, spiced final note. The fact that it comes from Cabernet, Merlot, Barbera and Nebbiolo grapes, cultivated by the Einaudi estates in Barolo and Dogliani, influences the distinct Piedmontese character of this wine. The annual production is of 4,500 bottles

The Vineyards

Nebbiolo

Aspect

South-East

Area of the vineyard

1.50 ha

Year of planting

1977-2002

Bushiness

4,800-5,000 vines/ha

Average yield per hectare

65 q

Zone

Comune di Dogliani (Cuneo)

Cru

San Giacomo – San Luigi 350 m

Soil

marly-calcareous-clayey ground

Aspect

South/South-West

Merlot

2 clones of SO4

Area of the vineyard

0.40 ha

Year of planting

1992

Bushiness

4,900 vines/ha

Cabernet

3 clones of SO4

Area of the vineyard

0.65 ha

Year of planting

1992

Bushiness

4,900 vines/ha

Barbera

2 clones of 420 A

Area of the vineyard

1.38 ha

Year of planting

1963-1999

Bushiness

4,900 vines/ha

The wine making

Fermented in steel tanks at a controlled fermentation temperature (30°C-32°C), racked after 10/12 days, followed by decanting in casks. It is gotten malolactic treatment at a constant temperature and thereafter matured in casks of first, second and third passage for eighteen months. The grapes that compose it are vinified separately and are assembled before bottling. Refined in bottle for six months, before being released at the beginning of the third year