NEBBIOLO CLARE SA
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A strikingly coloured wine best described as a fresh and aromatic medium-bodied style of red.
It is versatile with food making an especially good accompaniment to sweeter tasting dishes, including desserts.
There are now two vintages available 2011 and 2015.
ABOUT THE 2011
Alcohol: 14.8% v/v
Sugar: Bone Dry
Region: Clare. Single Vineyard. 100%.
Vintage: 2011
Bottled: 60 dozen
Comment: Just beginning it's bottle aging journey but finding it's feet now.
SERVING
Suits: Hors d'oeuvres, salad, curries, white meats especially pork, tomato and onion based dishes, stronger seafoods, desserts.
When: It's a bit of a mood wine. With a meal at any stage, but tending towards first course.
Order: No hard and fast rules, just depends on the circumstances.
Temp: 12-14 C minimum or normal red wine temperature 16-18 C. Can let warm up in the glass.
Sharing: Is substantial so provides satisfaction for a group of 4+, alongside other wines.
Glass: Pinot noir, large rounded fishbowl to capture the bouquet.
STYLE
Description: It has a bouquet almost pungent which crosses the room, and the palate has fresh but not high acidity.
Bone dry of sugar, but with a palate textural and sweet tasting, probably accounted for by the botrytis affectation in the vineyard. The framework of tannin expected from the variety is there in a rough and ready kind of way, not overly refined but only hinting at any astringency, and is gradually mellowing in with time.
Character: A fastidious variety to handle for a winemaker, because of the firmness of it's tannins in a medium- bodied context. Late to the party but goes all night.
Pedigree: Piedmont region in northern Italy.
What it's not: A white wine style of rose^. A full bodied red. An everyday quaffer.
WINEMAKER COMMENT
This is a style that seems to polarise opinion, but probably mainly because it is unexpected. Definitely some people instantly desire it, and others don't know what to make of it at all. Even though it feels like a risk-taking style it's very accessible. I'm endlessly fascinated by observing the colour in someone else's glass. A big, beautiful and expensive wine glass is worthwhile, but it is still equally down home out of a tumbler.
Alcohol: 14.8% v/v
Sugar: Bone Dry
Region: Clare. Single Vineyard. 100%.
Vintage: 2011
Bottled: 60 dozen
Comment: Just beginning it's bottle aging journey but finding it's feet now.
SERVING
Suits: Hors d'oeuvres, salad, curries, white meats especially pork, tomato and onion based dishes, stronger seafoods, desserts.
When: It's a bit of a mood wine. With a meal at any stage, but tending towards first course.
Order: No hard and fast rules, just depends on the circumstances.
Temp: 12-14 C minimum or normal red wine temperature 16-18 C. Can let warm up in the glass.
Sharing: Is substantial so provides satisfaction for a group of 4+, alongside other wines.
Glass: Pinot noir, large rounded fishbowl to capture the bouquet.
STYLE
Description: It has a bouquet almost pungent which crosses the room, and the palate has fresh but not high acidity.
Bone dry of sugar, but with a palate textural and sweet tasting, probably accounted for by the botrytis affectation in the vineyard. The framework of tannin expected from the variety is there in a rough and ready kind of way, not overly refined but only hinting at any astringency, and is gradually mellowing in with time.
Character: A fastidious variety to handle for a winemaker, because of the firmness of it's tannins in a medium- bodied context. Late to the party but goes all night.
Pedigree: Piedmont region in northern Italy.
What it's not: A white wine style of rose^. A full bodied red. An everyday quaffer.
WINEMAKER COMMENT
This is a style that seems to polarise opinion, but probably mainly because it is unexpected. Definitely some people instantly desire it, and others don't know what to make of it at all. Even though it feels like a risk-taking style it's very accessible. I'm endlessly fascinated by observing the colour in someone else's glass. A big, beautiful and expensive wine glass is worthwhile, but it is still equally down home out of a tumbler.