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Wine Description
The Story
LOCATION: CASTIGLIONE FALLETTO, at the centre of the Barolo wine-growing area
PROPERTY: in the MASCARELLO family since 1985
AREA: 0.62 Ha
ALTITUDE: 280 m above sea level
FACING: SOUTH-WEST
SOIL: Clayey-sandy, calcareous, composed of grey marl, brown clay and grey sand of marine origin
VINES PLANTED: Nebbiolo, planted in 1988.
VINEYARD: Villero in the village of Castiglione Falletto (CN)
HARVEST: Towards the middle of October.
WINEMAK...
Vintage 1978
The 1978 wine vintage in Italy was a breathtaking, monumental masterpiece, universally ranked alongside 1971 and 1990 as one of the absolute greatest Italian harvests of the 20th century. A delayed spring led to an exceptionally long, slow growing season, which was saved by a miracle late summer and a flawless, sun-drenched autumn that allowed late-ripening grapes to reach unprecedented levels of perfect phenolic maturity and sugar concentrati...
