Giovanni Corino Giovanni di Corino Giuliano Barolo Bricco Manescotto 2020
Giovanni Corino Giovanni di Corino Giuliano Barolo Bricco Manescotto
Region: Barolo, Piedmont, Italy
Vintage: 2020
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Nebbiolo
ABV: 15%
On the nose, this wine has delicate aromas of red fruits, sweet tobacco, cedar and spices. The palate has intense flavours of dried strawberries, spices and cedarwood. It has a full body with silky tannins balanced by high acidity making this a powerful but balanced, and attractive Barolo, with a long, lingering finish.
The Bricco Manescotto vineyard is located in Frazione Annunziata, in the commune of La Morra, on the border with Castiglione Falletto. The vineyard sits at 240-260 meters above sea level and enjoys an ideal south-western exposure. The soil is mainly calcareous and clayey with some traces of sand. Vines are Guyot pruned.
The berries underwent five to seven days of maceration in temperature-controlled rotary fermenters at 25-30°C, then fermentation took place in stainless-steel tanks. After malolactic fermentation, the wine was moved to French oak barriques (225 litres) for 24 months. The wine was transferred to stainless-steel tanks for final blending and stayed there for six months. Finally, the wine spent a year in bottle before release.
The Corino family have farmed land in La Morra since the 1950s, originally coming to the region as ‘mezzadri’, or sharecroppers. Yet it wasn’t until Giuliano Corino took over from his grandfather Giovanni in the 1980s that the Corino name became synonymous with some of La Morra’s finest Nebbiolo. Having originally sold their fruit, Giuliano was determined to start making and bottling his own wine from his family's vines.
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