Tasting notes
A rich and immediate bouquet with hints of violets, raspberries and blackberries with a touch of spices. It is rich and well structured and offers ever increasing sensations of violets and cocoa until the strong and mighty meeting with the tannins, that make the sensations last. Excellent with roast meats, wild fowl, braised meat and cheeses. To be served at 19°C.
Basic information
Product Name: Nebbiolo d’Alba Colla 2008
Color: Red
Category: Still Wine
Vintage: 2008
Format: 750 ml
Country/Region: Italia, Piemonte
Classification: D.O.C.
Type of vine: Nebbiolo
Appellation: Nebbiolo d’Alba
Alcohol percentage: 14 %
Sugar rate: 0-5 g/l
Acidity: Balanced
Sweetness: Dry
Wood Influence: Slight Touch of Oak
Age: Aged
Warehouse: No warehouse address is defined
Barrel
Type of Wood: allier
Level of Toast: medium
Percentage of New Barrel: 30%
Bottle
Empty Bottle Weight: 450 gr
Date of Bottling: 04/09/2010
Aging Potential: 10 anni
Cork Size: 24×44
Cork Material: natural cork
Bottle Type: Bordeaux bottle
Vineyard
% of Grape / Cépage: nebbiolo 100%
Soil: (coarse) sand and sandstone
Date of Harvest: 30/09/2008
Type of Harvest: By hand
Vinification (Wine-making)
Method: Traditional in steel tanks
Temperature: 30-35 °
Length: 15 days
Malolactic: done
Chemical analysis
Extract: 28,5
Method of Fining / Collage: barriques
Total Acidity: 5,65
Volatile Acidity: 0,62
Total SO2: 90
Free SO2: 33
Packing and Packaging
GWS Product Id: 31021987
My Product Number: 31021987
2008 Nebbiolo d’Alba “Vigna Colla”; Az. Agr. Fabrizio Battaglino; Vezza d’Alba
tar, roses, strawberry, rosebush, white truffle, cherry, plum, earth, sandstone, sandy, saline, haunting, beguiling nose, so much complexity and darkness. Never aggressive, but never restrained, open for business and seducing. Broad, mouth filling but not richly tannic, but nice acidity and structure. Forest fruits, forest floor, poised and focused. A hint of earth, with a long truffle, spicy, strawberry and tar finish. Roses and rosebush poking through with time. Herbs, pepper, a touch of cedar, tobacco and smoke, even perhaps some turmeric. A little bit of mocha and chocolate that wasn’t there upon opening the bottle. If anything, this is starting to close down in the glass and will need time to re-emerge. The early flavors hint at the fact that this is truly a vin de garde and will age effortlessly. The nose and the length remain incredibly even if the palate slowly shuts down under the tannin and structure. You could smell this all day and find something different. More open and expressive than the 07 at the same stage of evolution. White pepper as well now. Wild raspberry, smoke, flint, burnt match with more tar, roses, earth, leaves and truffle/mushroom. This is a wonderful, seducing, beguiling wine that although I feel it will shut down within the next 2-3 years, will reemerge perhaps 5 years after that, and develop for perhaps 5-10 years thereafter. A beautiful wine full of hidden secrets and potential. Ignore this at your peril. ***(***+) or [5+4+5+4.5=18.5/20]