Vaira Aureli Controcorrente red wine bottle label with family illustration.

Controcorrente

ITALY – Piedmont
Locality:
ITALY – Piedmont
Appellation:
Langhe
Grape Variety:
Nebbiolo
WineMaker:
Francesco and Giacomo Vaira
Vineyard:
0.4 ha. planted in 1990 over clay-limestone with some sand. From Coste di Vergne near Barolo, south facing from 400m elevation.
Viticulture:
Organic (not certified). Guyot-Poussard pruning. Density of 4000 vines/ ha.
WineMaking:
10-20% whole cluster. Only free-run juice for this cuvée. 2-week fermentation over ambient yeasts pied de cuve style. Extraction by punch-downs. Complete malolactic conversion.
Aging:
Aged for 10 months in used barrels and barriques.
Bottling:
Neither fined nor filtered.
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