2021 Cascina Chicco Langhe Nebbiolo

Started by the grandfather in the 1950s with the purchase of 1Ha of vineyard in Canale. In a few decades, the Faccenda family emerged as one of the most important wine producers in the Roero and Langhe area. The choice of vineyards is therefore very deliberate: all six are located in Cru areas: Mompissano in Canale, Valmaggiore in Vezza d'Alba and Ginestra in Monforte d'Alba.

Cascina Chicco offers red, white and “metodo classico” wines, all of them top quality: from the classic Roeros, including a red Roero, a white Roero Arneis, “everyone's friend” Barbera and the “Nebbiolo” king Barolo. The renowned "Gambero Rosso" guide has already written several times with praise for this promising winery.

This Caciscina is a 100% Nebbiolo from the Langhe appellation in Piemonte. The average age of the vineyards is 20 years and the yield per hectare is very low, so we are talking about a high quality Langhe Nebbiolo. The vineyard has a clay-like soil where the grapes are picked manually in 2 runs, so only the well-ripened nebbiolo grapes are selected. This manual and time-consuming process is especially important with a Nebbiolo and ensures a beautifully matured elegant wine instead of an acidic tannin-rich wine with too many green tones. The fermentation is in stainless steel, after which the wine is aged for 6 months in traditional large oak barrels and then receives a few months of bottle aging.

The Langhe Nebbiolo is also called a min-barolo or mini-barbersco, but sometimes this does not even cover the load because this is already much better than many too sour Supermarket barolos and then much cheaper in terms of price. In the glass Cascina Chicco has a beautiful light red color and has an ethereal elegant scent with hints of violets, leather, espresso and marasca cherry notes of spices. It is full, aristocratic and delicate and is perfect with roasts, game and matured cheeses