Ca'Rome Romano Marengo 'Sori Rio Sordo' Barbaresco DOCG, Italy 2016

Ca’ Rome’ was born in the 80s in Barbaresco from the passion for the land of Romano Marengo, thanks to his thirty years of experience in the wine industry, he decided to pursue his dream and build his own reality. This was made possible thanks to the help of his wife Olimpia, and their children. Now his son Giuseppe is leading the winery with all his determination and he personally follows with great technique every process from vineyard to cellar, of course always listening to his father’s wise advices. The philosophy of the winery is to produce genuine wines, supporting the vineyard with organic products, low yields in order to make the energy of the plant concentrate all on the bunch and in the cellar they use racking and filling to clean the wines. In total the winery cultivates 5 hectares of vineyards divided between Barbaresco and Serralunga producing clean and traditional wines, just to exalt the two different territories.

Barbaresco Rio Sordo comes from the vineyard having the same name, the most important one for the Marengo family. Located under the municipality of Barbaresco, it has always enjoyed an excellent reputation for its position almost all south and the mixed soils of clay and sand giving elegant but dark wines with full tannins. In this case the wine is aged for 24 months in large casks and in barrique plus 10 months in bottle. Great wine with enormous aging potential.

"The Ca' Rome' 2016 Barbaresco Rio Sordo opens to great aromatic intensity with dark fruit, dried cherry, licorice and crushed limestone. These classic traits are very in line with the vintage, and they reflect Nebbiolo from Barbaresco. The tannins are silky and firm, but they are also well integrated into the texture of the wine. The wine ages in barrique for eight months followed by 12 months in Slavonian oak, and this process adds to the volume and layering you get in Rio Sordo." Wine Advocate 93