Giuseppe Cortese Rabajà Barbaresco
Wine Description
This wine is made entirely from Nebbiolo grapes grown in Barbaresco's prestigious Rabajà vineyard, located in the Langhe hills just to the south of Cortese’s winery. To achieve the perfect structural balance, the wine is aged for twenty months in a combination of new and seasoned Slavonian and French oak casks, then bottled and cellared for an additional ten months.
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Vineyard & Production Info
Production area/appellation:
Barbaresco DOCG
Vineyard name
The Rabajà vineyard
Vineyard size
10 acres
Soil composition
Calcareous Clay-Loam
Training method
Guyot
Elevation:
900 feet
Vines/acre:
1,800
Yield/acre:
2.4 tons
Exposure:
Southern / Southwestern
Year vineyard planted:
1958-1978
Harvest time:
October
First vintage of this wine:
1971
Bottles produced of this wine:
17,000
Winemaking & Aging
Maceration length:
20-25
Varietal composition:
100% Nebbiolo
Fermentation container:
Stainless steel tanks
Length of alcoholic fermentation:
10 days
Fermentation temperature:
84 °F
Maceration technique:
Pumpovers
Malolactic fermentation:
Yes
Type of aging container:
Barrels
Size of aging container:
17-26 hL
Type of oak:
Slavonian
Length of aging before bottling:
20 months
Age of Aging Container:
New-Nine years
Length of bottle aging:
10 months
Analytical Data
pH level:
3.5
Acidity:
6.4 g/L
Alcohol:
14 %
Dry extract:
34.2 g/L
Residual sugar:
0.4 g/L
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