This Grignolino smells of blood orange, pomegranate, wild rose and blackberry. In the mouth the wine is balanced, elegant and enjoyable thanks to the rounded tannins. The taste-olfactory persistence is good. It is one of those wines that well match seafood dishes.
The land was an old abandoned vineyard that, through a series of works, it was restored by planting, around 2009, new rooted ruchè, barbera and grignolino.
The production area includes the municipalities of Castagnole Monferrato, Grana, Montemagno, Portacomaro, Refrancore, Scurzolengo and Viarigi.
We are in Viarigi in Piedmont, in the heart of the hills of Monferrato.
The village is clinging to the hill, the houses and the streets adapt to this characteristic, with stairs, subways, steep hairpin bends, walls.
Here we met Giancarlo from Cantina Cascinetta Bortolin…
This Grignolino smells of blood orange, pomegranate, wild rose and blackberry. In the mouth the wine is balanced, elegant and enjoyable thanks to the rounded tannins. The taste-olfactory persistence is good. It is one of those wines that well match seafood dishes.
Additional information
Wine Name
Grignolino del Monferrato D’Asti
Vintage
2020
Type of wine
Vino Rosso Fermo
Denomination
Doc
Vine
Grignolino 100%
Cultivating system
Espalier, with Guyot pruning
Yield
65 (kilos of grape in hundred- per ha)
Soil composition
Calcareous / Tufaceous soil with exposure to the East