{"id":8448,"date":"2015-02-23T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2015-03-28T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T16:23:51","slug":"new-cru-of-barbaresco-montersino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/new-cru-of-barbaresco-montersino\/","title":{"rendered":"New cru of Barbaresco: Montersino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Starting this year the range of wines from Albino Rocca will be enriched with a new cru of Barbaresco: <strong>BARBARESCO MONTERSINO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our vineyards in the Montersino cru are located in the hills of San Rocco Seno d&#8217;Elvio, a hamlet of Alba that is close to Treiso, and has full southern exposure with a higher altitude than Barbaresco. The soil is calcareous clay with the presence of sandy layers and sandstone, these features bring out the truly elegant characteristics of Nebbiolo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cru-montersino.jpg\" alt=\"cru-montersino\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cru-montersino.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cru-montersino-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nUntil 2011 the grapes from the Montersino vineyard were used along with other younger vineyards in our classic Barbaresco.<br \/>\n2012 was the turning point, when during harvest our father Angelo and Carlo decided to start making wine from the grapes from Montersino as a separate &#8220;cru&#8221; giving recognition to the maturity and power of this vineyard.<br \/>\nThis choice was driven by their awareness and desire to highlight the impact that territorial characteristics of every single cru and its terroir expresses in Nebbiolo.<br \/>\nThe production from this vineyard is limited to only 2,600 bottles, which is aged for two years in one large German and Austrian oak barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this year the range of wines from Albino Rocca will be enriched with a new cru of Barbaresco: BARBARESCO MONTERSINO Our vineyards in the Montersino cru are located in the hills of San Rocco Seno d&#8217;Elvio, a hamlet of Alba that is close to Treiso, and has full southern exposure with a higher altitude&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winery","tag-barbaresco-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albinorocca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}