TYPE
Unaged red wine
GRAPE VARIETAL
100% Uve Ruchè
ORGANOLEPTIC NOTES
It has great harmony and balance, highlighting a fascinating refined and mysterious aromatic vein. Warm and intriguing, excellent both for aperitifs and throughout the meal. Its scent opens to recognitions of violet and rose, hay and vanilla. It is warm on the palate and with a long aromatic persistence. It can be drunk in a vintage or even aged.
VINIFICATION AND AGING
Destemming and soft pressing of grapes with low sulfur dioxide content. Fermentation in contact with the skins for 1 day, at a temperature of 28-30 ° C, with daily phosphates. Malolactic fermentation, in stainless steel tanks.
ALCOHOL
13,50% vol.
BOTTLE
Bordolese
CAP
Cork
SERVICE TEMPERATURE
16° – 18°
RECOMMENDED GLASS
Quite wide tulip goblet
AGING
10Y and more
FOOD PAIRING
A spicy wine, which goes well with a cuisine rich in aromas. Excellent combination with game dishes, such as deer, wild boar and hare, or with farmyard animals braised with the same wine. Given its complexity, it is good customary to drink it out of a meal, perhaps accompanied with a shortcrust pastry dessert without creams.
CURIOSITY
Ruché is a centuries-old vine; its history is not known exactly, but it is certainly one of the most interesting and dynamic native Piedmontese vines. There are several legends about his name, with one in particular that seems the most reliable. It is said that in a farmhouse, called “Rocca”, some friars vinified this sweet wine to donate to the inhabitants of the nearby Poggio castle: hence the origin of the term Ruchè
Il Cavaliere
Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato
This wine was born from the need to make wine separately from the grapes produced from the most recent vineyards which over time have become adult and resourceful vineyards. We have identified the hill corresponding to our needs to have a lean, agile wine with a ready drink and that would characterize the original vine to the maximum. Today it is vinified using mainly grapes from the vineyard south of our cellar.
