Gheddo Langhe Nebbiolo DOC 2020
GRAPE: Nebbiolo 100%
TERRITORY: The only thing that differentiates Langhe Nebbiolo from the better-known and more prestigious Barolo and Barbaresco are a few kilometres, sometimes meters, away: in fact, the grapes for this wine are grown in the lands surrounding the Barolo DOCG. It follows that Langhe Nebbiolo is certainly an excellent wine made from soils with a great viticulturally vocation.
VINIFICATION: Giovanni and Mattia manually manage the soils that will give rise to Langhe Nebbiolo, without the use of herbicides and at an elevation of about 400 meters above sea level, in the commune of La Morra. Fermentation, in steel barrels and at a controlled temperature, precedes maceration for 10 days and aging, which takes place first in small 3rd- and 4th-passage wooden barrels, then in cement vat and then in the bottle.
TASTING NOTES: The color of the wine is pale red, typical of Nebbiolo, with slightly garnet reflections. The nose is delicate, elegant, with fruity (red fruit) and floral (violet) notes, with spicy notes on the finish. In the mouth it is confirmed as balanced and elegant, with a great acidity typical of a young wine that is able to age for a few more years.
HOW AND WHEN: It’s fantastic to match with mushroom, roasted meet, and semi-hard cheese.
Serving at 16-18 C
On the beautiful Langhe, in perhaps Italy’s most vocated area for viticulture, Giovanni and Mattia cultivate their three hectares of land with a very specific philosophy: to respect the ecosystem of the vineyard, to enjoy their work and, of course, to produce excellent wine.
Giovanni and Mattia, who grew up in Piedmont eonologically speaking, wanted to dedicate the name of their winery to a term from the Piedmontese dialect, Ghëddo, a word they learned while working in the vineyard with some old glories of the Langhe, masters who not only taught them the art of viticulture but also the way of life and speech of the people of the Langhe.
Ghëddo is difficult to translate with a simple synonym. Ghëddo is initiative, but it is also the brio with which you carry it out, it is inspiration and stubbornness, it is willpower. If you have it, you cannot hide it, it is irrepressible and you can see it in your face: to have Ghëddo is to possess a soul that exudes genuine and elegant enthusiasm.
GIOVANNI AND MATTIA truly have Ghëddo, you can see it in their faces. Both born in Milan but transplanted to the Langhe, they are lifelong friends and in 2014 managed to crown their dream of starting a winemaking business, moreover in a land as wonderful as Barolo. Giovanni is the agrarian and enological arm, Mattia is the commercial and administrative soul: an almost natural pairing that can only lead on the right track.
Two men, three hectares, the Langhe and Ghëddo. A fantastic mix for authentic wines in which you can sense all the work of two enterprising guys.