x

Rocche Costamagna

Piedmont, La Morra, Italia

  • Sää

    12° C Few clouds

  • Aika

    07:15 AM

  • Viinien keskiarvo?

    89 Tb

  • Kiinnostavuus?

    257

Historia

On May 15, 1841 the police office of the royal Military Command in Alba granted Luigi Costamagna, son of the estate’s founder Francesco Antonio Costamagna, an official licence “to retail the wine produced from his own vineyards” in La Morra. In 1911, Francesco Costamagna and his son Riccardo were awarded a gold medal at the “Gran Premio dell’Esposizione Internazionale di Torino” for fifty years of winemaking.

 

When Francesco died, his son Riccardo, an attorney, continued to manage the winery with the help of his wife Maddalena. When he died in the 1930s, Riccardo’s wife decided to sell the vineyards located outside La Morra. Wine was produced only for the family’s own consumption and some grapes were sold to other winemakers.

 

In the late 1960s, Maddalena’s niece, Claudia Ferraresi, together with her husband Giorgio Locatelli, restarted the commercial winemaking activity, planted new vineyards and modernised the old winery.

 

Since the mid 1980s their son Alessandro Locatelli has been managing the winery with the help of agronomist Gian Piero Romana and enologist Giuseppe Caviola.

 

Alessandro has improved the vineyards and wine-making techniques, he has been developing customer sales all over the world, and so carrying on the family tradition with passion and drawing on the wealth of experience gathered by the family.

Lue lisää
Sulje

Viiniviljelykset

ROCCHE DELL'ANNUNZIAT - It is one of the four historic vineyards in La Morra, together with Brunate, Cerequio and La Serra, and certainly the best area in the hamlet of Annunziata. Rocche refers to the highest part of a hill. The parcel slopes down from 347 m a.s.l. to 320 m a.s.l. and most of it is devoted to the growing of Nebbiolo grapes. The vineyard has a south-west aspect and is blessed with ideal growing conditions for producing our Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata and only in the best vintages, a small quantity of the cru Barolo Bricco Francesco. 0.7 hectares are used for Barbera grapes to produce the Barbera d’Alba Superiore Rocche delle Rocche.

 

All of the wines from Rocche dell’Annunziata have a unique complex bouquet.

 

Two vineyeards in the hamlet Annunziata and a number of recently acquired vineyards in Ridoasso (La Morra) are devoted to the production of the Barbera d’Alba Annunziata.

 

NASSONE E PISOTTA - These vineyards are located on the upper hills of La Morra and therefore are particularly suitable for early-ripening grapes such as Dolcetto and Arneis. At this altitude yields are low, grapes have great concentration and richness, and so ultimately wines are more complex. From a number of recently planted vineyards we produce Dolcetto d’Alba Murræ, while another five vineyards, more than 50 years old are devoted to Dolcetto d’Alba Rùbis. This wine displays the most intense bouquet of raspberry and blackberry aromas followed by an incomparable richenss and persistence of fruit flavours on the palate.

 

VERDUNO - A number of vineyards in Verduno are specially selected for the production of Langhe Nebbiolo Roccardo – a wine of great complexity. The soil in Verduno contributes to wines with fragrant spicy undertones. We are convinced that the greatest care in the vineyards is the most important activity in winemaking. In our young vineyards the density of plants is around 4500-5500 plants/hectare. Green harvesting (thinning out bunches) in mid July really makes the difference – the lower the yields, the more concentrated the grapes. Grapes from each vineyard are carefully selected and processed separately in order to keep and express in each wine the characteristics that are unique of a given vineyard and of a given terroir.

 

Methods to control diseases are based on the careful observation of weather and natural conditions: the spraying of chemical products is limited to the bare minimum.

Lue lisää
Sulje
Virheellinen informaatio
Virheitä sivustolla, kerro meille
Lähetä
UPGRADE MEMBER PLAN
Upgrade your membership now, it's quick and easy. We use PayPal, the world's largest payment system, it accepts all credit cards. Once you've chosen your membership level, you'll go directly to PayPal. You can cancel your membership at any time.
Thank you for your support!
 

Pro Member

 

Winemerchant Member

 

Winery Member

 

User

 


Päivitämme parhaillaan tastingbookin ohjeita, mikäli haluat voit katsoa alta videon sekä ohjeet englanniksi.

Short Introduction to theTastingbook.com

Welcome to the Tastingbook, the world's first intelligent wine-tasting tool and social wine community.

It is easy and fast to use, and I am happy to guide you through it.


1. Start by Signing up and creating your profile

- Add a profile picture and more information about yourselves


2. Next, Create your personal Wine World

- Click iFollow (Discover) from the top menu

- Tastingbook has added automatically into your wine world 5-10 of the most active professionals or Pro's as we call them.

- Search for more pros or other users by typing their name in the search field. Then click into my world to those who you want to include in your wine world. This way, you may be notified when they taste wines or comment on them.

- You can also add wines and wine producers into your wine world. This allows you to access the most up-to-date information about them.


3. Invite your friends to join the tastingbook

- Click your username on the top menu and choose invite

- Type your friends email addresses and click send invites

- You can follow the status of your invitation on the same page


4. Create a tasting and do tasting notes

4.1. Click the New tasting button from the top menu.

- Name the tasting as you wish.

- Set the place and time (You can also add your past tasting notes by just changing the date)

- Click the add new wine button on the right to add new wines to the tasting.

- Now go to the box that says 'Click to add the wine'.

- Start by typing the wine or producer name and select the wine from the list that appears.

- After you have selected the wine, the vintage selection will be opened automatically

- Select the correct vintage by clicking on it.


4.2. Next, click My tasting note box and the worlds most advanced tasting

- From the bottom left of the tasting tool you can select in which language you want to use and view tasting notes.

- just do your wine note by clicking the correct adjectives. The adjectives can be activated by clicking once, or de-activated by clicking again.

- Tastingbook Pros will teach you while you taste wines.

At the bottom of the page in the section Show notes of, you may view notes of the professionals by clicking Pro's. If any of the tastingbook pros have tasted the wine before their opinion will show in the gold colored frames around the adjectives on the tasting view.


4.3. After you have completed your wine note, it's time to give Tb points.

Click the box on the bottom right Give points.
In case you want to add any comment or personal thoughts related to this wine, you may tick the note box next to the scores. In this field you may add copy-pasted texts for instance your old notes, etc.


4.4. After you've completed your notes for all the wines, click Close tasting.

You may now share some general thoughts about the tasting or tasted wines and choose with whom you want share your tasting. Set the Tasting privacy to limit the audience who are able to view your tastings information. We suggest you use Everyone as most of the wine experiences are meant to be shared.

Note:

If a wine that you are tasting is not found in our database, please be kind enough to send us an email to: addwine@thetastingbook.com, please include at least the wine name and producer. We will add the wine in tastingbook within 24 hours.


5. Tastingbook is full of information and stories - how to find them.

Tastingbook is full of information about wines, vintages, and wineries and also has over 30.000 pictures of wines. To best way to find what you are looking for is to browse the site from the Browse field in the top right corner.

You may search for wine, vintage, producer, pros or other community members by typing the name in the browse field. You may then choose from the drop down menu.



If you have any difficulty in navigating the site you may easily get help by clicking the support button on the left side of the page

We hope you enjoy all that the tastingbook has to offer and wish you rewarding moments in exploring tastingbook, your personal wine world.


You can always access these instructions from the top menu.

Kirjoita viesti...
Kirjaudu jäseneksi
Sign up now, it's quick and easy.
We use PayPal, the world's largest payment system, it accepts all credit cards.
Once you've chosen your membership level, you'll go directly to PayPal, where you can sign up for a free 7-day trial period. You can cancel your membership at any time. We wish you a rewarding journey to the world of Fine Wines.

Free 7 days Member trial

 

Member

 

Pro Member

 

Winemerchant Member

 

Winery Member

 

User

  Tule jäseneksi