WINE NAME |
GRAPES |
FEATURES | ||
Barbera d’Asti Superiore DOCG | A minimum of 90% Barbera grapes; a maximum of 10% Freisa, Grignolino or Dolcetto grapes. | Deep ruby-red wine; strong perfume of ripe fruit; well-balanced, rich and smooth flavour. | ||
Barbera d’Asti DOCG | A minimum of 90% Barbera grapes; a maximum of 10% Freisa, Grignolino or Dolcetto grapes. | Deep ruby-red wine; rich, fruity perfume; elegant and savoury flavour. | ||
Barbera del Monferrato Superiore DOCG |
a maximum of 15% Freisa, Grignolino and/or Dolcetto. |
Ruby-red wine; intense and distinctive perfume, tending to the ethereal with aging; dry, with proper aging becomes more harmonious, pleasant, full flavour. | ||
Barbera del Monferrato DOC
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a maximum of 15% Freisa, Grignolino and/or Dolcetto. |
Ruby-red wine; vinous and distinctive perfume; dry flavour, sometimes lively. | ||
Albugnano Superiore DOC | A minimum of 85% Nebbiolo grapes; a maximum of 15% Freisa, Barbera and Bonarda. | Ruby-red wine sometimes with garnet tinge, delicate, characteristic perfume; ethereal flavour, more or less tannic, good persistence. | ||
Albugnano DOC | A minimum of 85% Nebbiolo grapes; a maximum of 15 % Freisa, Barbera and Bonarda. | Ruby-red wine, sometimes with garnet tinge; delicate, distinctive perfume, more or less tannic, full-bodied, good persistence, sometimes lively. | ||
Cisterna d’Asti Superiore DOC | A minimum of 80% Croatina grapes; a maximum of 20% other red grapes. | Colour from ruby red to garnet-red with aging; intense, delicate and distinctive perfume; dry, delicate and harmonious flavour. | ||
Cisterna d’Asti DOC
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A minimum of 80% Croatina grapes; a maximum of 20% other red grapes. | Deep ruby-red wine; intense, fruity, full-bodied perfume; delicate and harmonious flavour, sometimes lively. | ||
Freisa d’Asti Superiore e Freisa d’Asti DOC | Freisa grapes. | Cherry or garnet red wine; characteristic perfume of raspberries or roses; fresh and pleasant flavour. | ||
Grignolino d’Asti DOC and Grignolino del Monferrato Casalese DOC |
Grignolino grapes; a maximum of 10% Freisa grapes. | Pale ruby-red wine; strong and fruity perfume with raspberry marks, dry flavour with raspberry marks and a pleasant slightly bitter aftertaste. | ||
Malvasia di Casorzo DOC | Malvasia di Casorzo grapes; a maximum of 10% Freisa, Grignolino, Barbera grapes. | Cherry-red wine with a fragrant perfume of flowers and a sweet, aromatic flavour with an excellent perlage. | ||
Malvasia di Castelnuovo Don Bosco DOC | Malvasia di Schierano grapes; a maximum of 15% Freisa grapes. | Cherry-red wine; fragrant perfume of flowers; sweet, slightly aromatic and distinctive flavour. | ||
Monferrato DOC e sue tipologie in rosso | Rosso, Chiaretto, Dolcetto, Freisa grapes. |
Flavour: “Monferrato” Red: cool, dry, sometimes lively; “Monferrato” white: cool, dry, sometimes lively; |
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Ruché di Castagnole Monferrato DOCG | A minimum of 90% Ruché grapes; a maximum of 10% Barbera or Brachetto grapes. | Ruby-red wine with orange marks; intense fruity and slightly aromatic perfume; soft and dry flavour with marks of spices. | ||
Terre Alfieri Nebbiolo DOC
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85%-100% Nebbiolo grapes | Ruby-red wine, tending to garnet with aging; distinctive and delicate perfume, sometimes with marks of violet; dry, full-bodied, harmonious flavour. |