Pelissero - Barbaresco Nubiola - 2017 | Italian Red Wine

Barbaresco Nubiola is a red wine made by Pelissero in Piedmont, Italy, with the Nebbiolo monovarietal.

This is one of the the latest Barbaresco wines ever made by Pelissero. The first bottles date back to 2001. It belongs to an historical, traditional and cultural important denomination and it has got all the strength and complexity a great vine is able to express. The blend Nubiola shows in fact the name with which in the historical treaty of agriculture “De Ruralium Commodorum” (dated 1330) where Pier Dè Crescenzi (a jurist of Bologna) mentions one of the best vines known at that time describing it as a “a sort of black grape called Nubiola… wonderfully vinous and adapted for wine making.” Now call it the Nebbiolo grape (Nubiola is pronounced with accent on the o).

The Nebbiolo varietal composing 100% of the Barbaresco wine is the focal point of this wine that is considered when smaking Barbaresco, the basis from which to start in order to arrive to the best selections. Due to the different compositions of the soils, the wine making techniques and the history should be expressive of the traditional Barbaresco. It is made in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature and automatically programmed mixing of the wine dregs, then aged in wood dosing small barriques and big 50 hl oak cask in variable proportion according to the vintage features always with the intent to exalt the Nebbiolo’ s variety’s characteristics.