Colombera & Garella Melascone Vino Rosso 2023
Colombera & Garella Melascone Vino Rosso 2023
- Italien
- Alto Piemonte
- 2023
Critic ratings
- 6/6 @Ugensvin
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Food pairings
- Charcuterie
- Pasta with tomato sauce
- Mushroom dishes
- Poultry
- Hard cheese
Try it with
- Vitello tonnato
- Mushroom risotto
- Tagliatelle with ragù
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About the wine
Fresh, juicy, and straightforward – a classic northern Piedmont wine with plenty of character and charm.
Melascone is made from 90% Nebbiolo and 10% altri vitign (translated; other grape varieties). The grapes come from their youngest vineyards in Masserano, Brusnengo, and Lessona.
It is a wine that showcases the area's lightness and minerality in a more immediate and drinkable style.
The aroma is lively with red berries, violet, dried herbs, and a hint of pepper. The taste is truly juicy and linear with beautiful acidity, light tannins, and a refreshing, stony finish. A wine that invites the next sip.
The vines grow at an altitude of 350 meters on southwest-facing slopes, where the soil consists of porphyritic sand of volcanic origin with low pH – a combination that gives the wine its characteristic energy and lightness. Classic guyot is used, and the yield is slightly higher than the house's top wines, which perfectly suits the wine's style.
After careful selection in the vineyard, the wine is vinified without temperature control with pump-overs and délastage – a method where the must is drawn off and poured back over the skins for gentle extraction and aeration. The malolactic fermentation occurs spontaneously, and the wine is aged for one year in steel tanks to preserve freshness and the pure expression of the grapes.
Melascone is best young and lively, but can be stored without problems. An ideal wine for a glass in good company.
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