Cascina Morassino Barbaresco Morassino 2018 750ml

Cascina Morassino is a boutique winery with 3.5 hectares in Ovello and 1.5 hectares in Neive, including the Cottà MGA. This 2018 is open-knit, offering up a smorgasbord of wild rose, violet and peony. It has a Pinot-like lightness with sucrosity, combining a strawberry fruit character and crunchy tannins with acid that carries the finish. Lacking some complexity yet not savouriness. An easy-drinking Barbaresco.

• Country: Italy
• Region: Piedmont
• Appellation: Barbaresco
• Size: 750ml
• Color: Red
• Alcohol by Vol: 14.5%

Varietal

Nebbiolo

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy’s finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means ‘fog’ in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.