Piemonte Chardonnay DOC “I Boschi”

Variety: Chardonnay 100%.

Vineyard: The grapes come from vineyards located in the municipalities of Fontanile and Castel Boglione, where fossil-rich Sant’Agata marls partially merge with sandstone soils containing a
good presence of limestone.

Vinification: Harvest generally takes place in the first week of September. In the cellar, the grapes undergo gentle pressing, using only the free-run juice. The must is then kept at a low temperature (around 5°C) for 36 hours in contact with the fine lees, with bâtonnage, in order to enhance aromatic extraction. This is followed by static settling, after which the slightly cloudy must is transferred to a 50 hl wooden vat for alcoholic fermentation, lasting approximately 15 days.
At the end of fermentation, the wine is racked into tonneaux (10% new), where it ages for about one year. During this period, no bâtonnage is carried out, allowing the wine to evolve in reduction until bottling.

Pairings: Recommended with tajarin with white truffle, raw scampi, pizza with buffalo mozzarella, or apple tart.

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We also recommend you look at the Gavi del Comune di Gavi DOCG, which comes close as taste notes.

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NOSE

A refined, intense and pleasant bouquet with notes of citrus and pineapple, softened by a light buttery nuance.

VIEW

Deep straw-yellow in color.

MOUNTH

On the palate it is savory and graceful, with excellent structure, richness, freshness and a long, persistent finish.

“This plays as a foreigner. Few thousand bottles of Chardonnay, because in the area actually the grape variety arrived only in the 1800s, which is why you find vineyards of it scattered here and there between Monferrato and Langhe. It can be fully appreciated only after three to four years of aging in the bottle, and only then can one understand that Piedmont is actually not bad on whites either.”

Dino

History

The interest shown by the Bertolino family in Chardonnay was born around the 1950s/60s. At that time, this grape variety assumed extreme importance due to the strong sparkling wine tradition of the area, which had found in the municipalities north of Nizza Monferrato an excellent soil capable of producing wines of extraordinary quality.