Item Number: 6576 UPC: None

Country: Italy
Region: Piedmont Sub Region: Piedmont
Appellation/AVA: Coste della Sesia DOC
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vintage: 2012
Grape(s): 100% Nebbiolo
Type: Wine - Rose
Bottle Size: 750ml Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13.04
Total Acidity: 5.93
Soil Type: Made up from sea sand, orange yellow in color and from porphyritic sand of volcanic origins, red brown in color
Elevation: 270 - 350 meters
Average Vine Age: 45 years

About the Wine: Nebbiolo is at the heart of the great Piedmont wines. The Tenute Sella 'Majoli' Rosé is made from the same classic Nebbiolo grapes that go into their red wines. The result is a product of great character, that thus preserving the features of the grapes reshapes them in a modern take.

Piedmont 2012 Vintage: A vintage to be remembered for its alternating weather anomalies: warm and very dry in April and May, then the endless sequence of rains in June and July, then again the constantly hot weather in August and September that led to an early harvest with many vineyards at risk of water stress. Also because of a hailstorm in early July - here and there-devastating - the yields were lower than the average; very ripe grapes brought well structured but balanced wines, with a reasonable alcohol content.

'Majoli' Rosato Winemaking Notes: Destemming - crushing 95% from soft pressing, successive 36 hours of cold pre-fermentation maceration (4° C) with the use of dry ice and 5% from the drainage of the total mass of Nebbioli of Bramaterra to follow slow fermentation for 26 days at a low temperature (13° C). No malolactic fermentation. Wine aged for six months in stainless steel vats.