CIGLIUTI RENATO Vie Erte Barbaresco 2016

CIGLIUTI RENATO

The Cigliuti farm, nestling in the rolling hills of Serraboella, near Neive, has always been a family-run winery. The nebbiolo and dolcetto vines are planted to the southwest, in the area most exposed to the sun’s rays, where the soil is all tufa and limestone. To the southeast, where the soil is silty and clayey, are the barbera grapes.

Renato Cigliuti oversees his magnificent vineyards with his all-female family team, consisting of his wife Dina and his daughters Claudia and Silvia. They enjoy the best locations in Neive and, despite the steep slopes, the family still tends them with artisan methods, such as thinning, which helps the grapes to fully ripen. The harvest is carried out with great care and attention, the finest bunches of the grapes for wine for bottling being selected one by one.

Cement vats may have been replaced by steel ones, but the vinification and fermentation processes still follow the traditional method. Slavonian oak casks are used to age the finest wines.

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Azienda Agricola F.lli Cigliuti has always treasured skill, passion, knowledge of the terroir, sensitivity and attention to detail. In this simple family-run business, all these elements have interacted for four generations with the precise aim of producing wines that express the terroir they come from to the full. The result is a total of about 30,000 bottles a year.

BARBARESCO  VIE ERTE

Altitude: 350 m above sea level

Soil composition: calcareous

Vine age: 25-55 years

Yield per hectare: about 4000-4500 Kg

Pruning:  upwards Guyot training

Fermentation and meceration: in steel vats at controlled temperatures

Ageing: in Slavonian oak casks and French oak mid-sized casks

First vintage: 1964

Serve with: roast and braised red meats, game, truffle dishes, mature cheeses

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