Giovanni Rosso Cerretta Barolo 2016

Azienda Agricola Giovanni Rosso is a small, family-owned producer in the heart of the Barolo commune of Serralunga d’Alba. We make only red wines, and our passion is for Barolo and its great grape, Nebbiolo.

We hope you enjoy our website and even more importantly, our wines. Since the 1890’s the Rosso family has farmed vineyards in Serralunga d’Alba, notably the Crus of Cerretta, La Serra, Broglio, Meriame, Sorano, Costa Bella, Lirano & Damiano. During the early 1980’s Giovanni Rosso restructured the vineyards with the aim of growing the best fruit.

Giovanni’s son, Davide, studied Oenology and gained invaluable experience in France. In 2001 Davide, then 27 years old, took charge of the vinification & affinamento/elevage of the wines with one goal in mind: “Wine should be a perfect copy of its terroir“… in this case from the slopes of Serralunga d’Alba, among the finest soils in the world.

The Giovanni Rosso cantina (winery) is located in the hamlet of Baudana, just a couple of kilometres north of Serralunga d’Alba village. A traditional family cascina, or farmhouse, it houses the fermentation, ageing, bottling and labeling facilities as well as the offices.

…side-project…

Davide Rosso has been looking for many years for a new terroir where he could face a new challenge himself.

The side-project was officially born in May 2016 with the purchase of the Etna estate near the village Solicchiata of Castiglione di Sicilia. The farm rises a few kilometers before Passopisciaro down to Montedolce, a small inactive crater that gives the name to the Contrada. We are in the northeast side of the volcano, a perfectly suited area for the production of red wines. The new holdings extend for fourteen hectares in one single plot among which just something more than six hectares are dedicated to viticulture: 1.2 ha for the whites and 5.5 ha for the reds (Carricante and Nerello Mascalese with small percentages of other local grape varieties, as the tradition requires). The training system has been renamed as “candelabro”.

These are forty years old bush trained vines (“alberello”), directed in two main branches to allow regular rows; The average altitude is 750m a.s.l. Soon we will restructure the old farm house (locally called Palmento). In the next few years new vineyards will be planted in the highest part of the property.

The soil is entirely made by lava sand and the plants are farmed biologically. The microclimate is unique in the world and again the goal is to produce wines able to tell the terroir with the greatest style and elegance.

BAROLO CERRETTA

WINEMAKING

Harvest time: middle of October.
The fermentation lasts some 25 days according to the vintage with daily pumping over of the wine mass with délestages at half of the period (fermentation in concrete tanks).
The aging is conducted in 25 or 50hl large barrels of Fontainebleau Forest oak (from 18 to 36 months according to the vintage)

WINE DESCRIPTION

• Perfumes: unpeccable in the nose, elegant and neat; craft jams, wild herbs, chocolate.
• Taste: powerful and yet soft as well as its tannins; embracing sensation with a good fruit imprint, long lasting finish.
• Pairings: long cooking red meats, oustanding with truffled pheasant.
  (Service Temp.: 16°-18°C).

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