Distinctive ruby red; stylish forest fruits bouquet with restrained wafts of smokiness;the invitingly soft palate takes its leave with a subtle, long-lingering after-aroma.
Food matchings
Full-flavoured pasta and rice dishes with “speck” (boned smoked pork flank), red meats and moderately mature cheeses
Pinot Nero Alto Adige D.O.C.
Soil types
Mainly limestone-based and generally loose-packed, very pebbly with a substantial fraction of organic matter
Elevation
350-500 metres above sea level
Grape
Pinot Nero
Training system
Part overhead trellis and part vertical trellis with Guyot pruning
Planting density
3,000-3,500 vines per hectare for overhead trellis; 4,500-6,000 vines per hectare for vertical trellis
