Description

Vineyard: Vigna del Mandorlo is 2.5 hectares, 380m a.s.l., with a density of 5,000 vines per hectare.

Winemaking Process: Vinified in stainless steel, temperature-controlled tanks, with automatic pump-over. Ageing for eight months in stainless steel, and over lees for 60 days. Refined in bottle for six months before release. Bottles produced: 16,000.

Alcohol Content: 13.5%

Tasting Note

Tasting Note: Bright ruby red in colour with deep violet highlights. The perfume is immediate and intense, uncompromisingly vinous and persistent. Aromas and flavours of red forest fruits, dark plums, cherry, and bitter almond. Medium- to full-bodied wine, packed with fruit. True to tradition, its early freshness and complexity after bottle ageing make it great for everyday drinking.

Serving Temperature: Serve at 16-18°C.

Ageability: Ideally consumed within three years of the vintage.

About the Grape

Dolcetto: Grown mainly in Italy's Piedmont region, around the towns of Allba and Asti (a touch lighter style) Dolcetto is known for producing soft, easy-drinking red wines that are relatively dark in colour, lower in acidity, with bright fruit aromas and flavours and notes of liquorice and almond on the finish. Meant to be consumed early, and with food, in the right hands Dolcetto can produce wines that have some potential to age.

Elvio Cogno

Selected one of the "Top 100 Wineries of the Year", by prestigious Wine & Spirits Magazine (October 2009)

The Elvio Cogno società agricola s.s.winery sits on the top of Bricco Ravera, a hill near Novello in the Langhe area of Piedmont, one of the eleven communes in which Barolo is produced. The cellar is housed in an 18th-century manor farm surrounded by 10 hectares of land, nine of which of which occupied by vineyards.

In 1990, after a long and fruitful partnership with Marcarini at La Morra, Elvio Cogno bought a splendid historical farm in the family village and restored it to its former glory. Today the winery nestles in a breathtaking landscape between the hills and the sky. At sunset on clear days, a wonderful turquoise horizon frames the farm like a painting. Hence the name of this exceptional wine land: ‘Petorchino’, or blue feet.

The Cogno family has been making wine in the Langhe area for four generations: the values of history and tradition handed down by Elvio Cogno to his daughter Nadia and her husband Valter Fissore. Now, through careful vineyard management (without pushing things to an extreme or forcing) with low yields per hectare and respect for the organic balance of the vine, Valter and Nadia Cogno cultivate rigorously autochthonous varietals: nebbiolo, barbera, dolcetto, and nascetta. The sparing use of technology meaning long submerged-cap and spontaneous fermentations, decanting, and careful aging on wood to optimize the production process without altering what mother nature creates.

The result is high-quality grapes, balanced wines: rich but not excessively so, amenable but elegant, with a classic character and feel. Elvio Cogno wines seek to transmit emotions, to be remembered. They cheer the soul of anyone who tastes them with enthusiasm and sincerity.

Their efforts were rewarded in 2009 when their fourth Barolo – the 2004 Barolo "Vigna Elena"– received the prestigious 3 glass (out of 3) standing by Italy’s Gambero Rosso magazine. The 2004 Barolo Ravera DOCG received the same award in 2008. Robert Parker released a strong list of reviees in October 2009 as well ("Wine Advocate", Issue 185), including 94pts for the 2004 Barolo Vigna Elena DOCG and 93+pts for the new (single-vineyard) 2005 Barolo Bricco Pernice DOCG.

Address:
Elvio Cogno società agricola s.s.
Località Ravera, 2 - 12060 Novello (CN) - Italy

Phone number: +390173744006

Email: elviocogno@elviocogno.com

Website: http://www.elviocogno.com

Visits: Will receive visitors appointment -- open 8.00-12.00 and 14.00-18.00, Monday to Friday. Weekends by appointment only.

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