Pio Cesare is a premium winery located in a quaint valley, positioned between the Alps and Mediterranean in Piedmont, Italy. Established in 1881 this producer is still family owned and supervised by Pio Boffa. Today the Pio Cesare winery has expand its Barbaresco vineyard holdings as it concentrates on producing great wines from the region. The 1999 vintage is matured for a year in Oak and it is a big, tasty, complex wine with great tannic structure, edged with hints of soke, herbs and pine culminating in a long finish. (12 x 75 cl)
Region:
Italy, Piemonte, Barbaresco
Producer:
Pio Cesare
Product ID:
44993
PioCesareBarbaresco Piemonte DOCG
Description: Our Barbaresco has a glossy garnet colour with light ruby shades. The bouquet is intense and fragrant, with a hint of violets, cinnamon and vanilla. The palate is dry, full and vigorous, with overtones of peach. This wine has a quiet power. The Nebbiolo grapes for our Barbaresco come almost exclusively from our own vineyards in the village of Treiso. To these we add a small quantity of grapes from some of the best vineyards in Barbaresco and San Rocco Seno d'Elvio. The right blending of grapes from different vineyards allows us to produce a wine with many hues. As with our Barolo, the grapes for Barbaresco are carefully selected. Each and every grape is inspected to ensure perfection, and any grape that is not absolutely perfect is discarded. The three-week harvest takes place during the last two weeks in October and the first in November. The grapes are soft pressed and fermented at 25 to 26 degrees, in contact with the skins for 20 to 25 days. We have tended toward a long maturation in French oak, well beyond the terms imposed by the DOCG, so that our Barbaresco can develop a complex personality that complements her beauty. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £183.59
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PioCesare IL BRICCO Barbaresco DOCG Piemonte Description: The colour is very deep, with intense scents of ripe fruit. The tannins are sweet and mellow, but complex and elegant. This is a wine with great structure and complexity, with a very long ageing potential. Il Bricco is the name of the estate vineyard owned by our family in Treiso, in the area of Barbaresco. The word Bricco, in Piedmont dialect means the peak of a hill. The ''Il Bricco'' estate is not a generic peak, but the official name of that estate, marked on the government maps to indicate the specific hill dominating part of the territory of the Treiso village. This estate has been well-known for the high quality of soil, microclimate and sun exposure for over one hundred years. From the Nebbiolo grape, we have always produced our traditional Barbaresco. Since 1990, we have also produced this single vineyard Barbaresco from a selection of exclusively selected Nebbiolo grapes grown in plots on the Il Bricco estate. We only produce ''Il Bricco'' in top-quality vintages. The characteristics of the soil, the very low yields (6 x 75 cl) Price: £283.53
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PioCesare Barolo DOCG Piedmont
Description: Hearty, full-bodied red, remarkably rich, with deep, warm, plummy, wood-smoked flavours that linger pleasantly. Fermentation in stainless steel vats, skin contact for 20 days; 30% aged in barrels of French oak for 20 months, 70% aged in Slavonian oak casks for 3 years; 6 months bottle ageing before release (12 x 75 cl) Price: £536.52
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PioCesareBarbaresco Piemonte DOCG
Description: A glossy garnet colour with light ruby shades. The nose is intense and fragrant, with a hint of violets, cinnamon and vanilla. A dry, full and vigorous palate, with overtones of peach. This wine has a quiet power. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £188.59
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PioCesare IL BRICCO Barbaresco DOCG Piedmont
Description: One of the region's most stylish and well respected winemakers, PioCesare produce wines exclusively from their own vineyards at Ornato and Cascini Bricco. They use only the best crops, confident that this gives their wines that little extra edge, making them fuller and rounder with a rich depth This Nebbiolo wine is from a single Vineyard and is produced from the very best grapes only in the very best years. As a result this wine is full and smooth with an intense aroma, good ripe fruit, soft tannins giving way to a wonderful finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £248.91
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PioCesare Nebbiolo d'Alba Piemonte Description: Organoleptic characteristics: colour: intense garnet red. Bouquet: wide, ethereal, greatly refined, with delicate hues of wild violets and roses and memory of blackberry and vanilla. Taste: dry, flavorous, smooth and soft, live strength, wide stuff, well expressed with young emotions. Grapes original area: The grapes from which we produce our Nebbiolo d'Alba come from Nebbiolo vineyards located in a geographic area stretching on the right bank of Tanaro river, typical area producing the Nebbiolo grapes for Barolo and Barbaresco. The grapes coming from these areas have got organoleptic characteristics very similar to the ones of the grapes to be trasformed into Barolo and Barbaresco. Method of selection and vintage: The selection of grapes is as important and fundamental for Nebbiolo as it is for Barolo and Barbaresco. Vintage time is just a few days before the one of Barolo and Barbaresco. Wine processing: The soft pressing of the grapes is followed by fermentation at checked temperature with the must in contact with the peels for 12-13 days. Description: It's a wine with a peculiar personality and an original location; being soft, elegant refined, in comparison with the more demanding Barolo and Barbaresco, it seems more easily approachable, even if it never gives up a smart class and an harmonious structure. Our Nebbiolo d'Alba is the ideal solution for those moments and occasion when you ask a wine for something less than the important presence of a great matured wine. It is approachable, but not easy, complex, but not too important, therefore it is a wine for a superior consumption, showing characteristics of elegant structure and being softly drinkable (6 x 75 cl) Price: £113.71
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PioCesare L ALTRO Chardonnay DOC Piedmont
Description: In 1981 we planted some Chardonnay vines in a single vineyard of our estate in Treiso, replacing an old vineyard of Barbaresco. Since 1985 we produce with these Chardonnay grapes a limited quantity of barrel fermented Chardonnay called Piodilei. We wanted to keep the quantity of this wine very small and in the meantime we wish to give the chance to a wider number of consumers to enjoy our Chardonnay. In September 1993 we decided to ferment in stainless-steel tanks a part of our Chardonnay: the results was a fresh and vibrant wine with evident hints of ripe fruits. After some experiments we noted that adding to this wine a 25% of the same Chardonnay fermented and aged in new oak barrels, we reached an interesting wine spicy taste and persistent after-taste. So that we decided to create a new Chardonnay, with more pronounced fruity character but slightly lighter style. L'Altro in italian means (12 x 75 cl) Price: £197.21
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PioCesare Nebbiolo d'Alba Piedmont
Description: Fermentation in stainless steel vats at low temperature, skin contact for 10 days. 30% aged in French oak barrels, 70% in Slovenian oak, bottle ageing 6 months. The soil components of the tiny area in between Barolo and Barbaresco, where the vineyards are located, add more fruit and a particular character to this wine. Smooth, soft and rounded with complexity and a great elegance. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £299.43
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PioCesarePIO di LEI Chardonnay delle Langhe DOC
Description: A complex Chardonnay, with a delicate fruit, hint of apples, banana and tropical fruit, with a good complexity, richness, a hint of vanilla, good long finish. In 1980 we planted a vineyard of Chardonnay in a parcel of our Estate vineyards Il Bricco in Treiso, in the heart of the Barbaresco area. For many years we had dreamed about making a white wine from our area having only the colour of a white wine but every other character being similar to the ones of a Great red . Since we decided to plant the Chardonnay variety, it had proved the world that in the best soils of the top wine regions world wide it can produce fantastic white wines. Being convinced that the soil in Barbaresco, particularly at our Il Bricco Estate, is producing superb wines, we took the challenge hoping to see our dreams coming through. The yield per hectare is very small , the grapes are carefully selected bunch by bunch and they are late harvested, in order to pick them fully ripe. After a gentle pressing, the juice is fermented 100% in new oak barrels of French oak for a long time. The wine remains on the leavens for an extra period of 8 months. After the bottling it is aged in the bottle for 1 year prior to releasing it. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £143.30
