Barbaresco Sorì Vecchie Vigne DOCG 2019 - Pasquero Elia

Paitin is one of the oldest wineries in Piedmont, which is still owned by the same family as it was back in 1893, when the ancestors of the current owners Giovanni and Silvano Pasquero Elia bottled the first bottles and even initiated overseas exports. The oldest Nebbiolo plants*, which were planted in 1953, are not that old, but quite unusual for vines. From that plot, Giovanni and Silvano win the Vecchie Vigne selection, which is only bottled in the best vintages. Like all red wines from this winery, Vecchie Vigne is neither filtered nor embellished, but stays in large oak barrels instead of the prescribed 12 months (Barbaresco Act), for careful and slow aging. The wine has a stately fullness, complex nose with nuanced aromas and a juicy, soft body, whose tannins are well embedded. Giovanni and Silvano Pasquero Elia have been practicing organic viticulture for many years, but without declaring this. They consider the formalities for the declaration to be far too large for a small winegrower that only produces 60,000 bottles. For more and more winemakers, the careful and careful use of nature is a matter of course, which is in their very best interest, because they are most interested in leaving healthy soil and soil in ecological balance to their descendants. * Back then, the Nebbiolo vines were still propagated according to the old system in which the winemaker cut the lap of the best vines and brought them to the winegrower for refinement. Today, this would no longer be permitted under EU standards, which only provide for certain clones for reproduction and the so-called Selezione Massale is prohibited. It is one of the many laws that are unfortunately becoming more and more uniform (not just in the food sector!) leads. In the “Vecchie Vigne”, the morphological differences of the individual plants can be observed, perhaps also in the bouquet of the wine, in its extraordinary aromatic diversity.