Cascina Fontana – Barolo DOCG – 2016

Cascina Fontana represents the true essence of the Barolo Langa. This is a typical winery, simple, but with ideas well founded on tradition and values. The winery was founded in 1994, when the winemaker Mario Fontana, after an experience as a farmer in the family business, decided to change direction and create his small business with his ideas of making wine, but above all Barolo. The winery is located in Perno, a small fraction of the municipality of Monforte d’Alba, a little known, niche area, but which actually produces wines with body and structure, thanks to the privileged position and the soils rich in blue marl.
Mario’s philosophy is very humble … as he himself says, he simply followed his grandfather’s teachings, he didn’t change anything about winemaking or the ways of working in the vineyard. It manages only 5 hectares between the municipalities of Castiglione Falletto, La Morra and Sinio, where it produces the most typical wines of the Langa: Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Barolo. In the cellar you do not imagine who knows what! There are only concrete tanks, medium-large oak barrels for aging and steel tanks for spontaneous fermentation without temperature control. Even in the vineyard, Mario tries to work as cleanly as possible, without stressing the plant too much. The characteristic that distinguishes the wines of Cascina Fontana is the freshness and aromatic intensity … they are very pleasant wines to drink, not too hard, but thanks to this large acid part they are wines that have a high potential over time.
Barolo comes from three different vineyards: Villero and Mariondino in Castiglione Falletto and Giachini in La Morra, all beautiful crus, but above all famous for having sandy soils, giving elegance to the wines. This can be defined as a true classic Barolo, less than 10,000 bottles produced, it ages for 24 months in large oak barrels plus a year in concrete and one in bottle. A beautiful Barolo to drink, which plays precisely on aromas and elegance, but with a great skeleton and structure that allows it to be preserved for a long time.

• Producer:Cascina Fontana di Mario Fontana
• Name: Barolo DOCG
• Grape Variety: 100% Nebbiolo
• Vintage: 2016
• Alcohol Content: 14%
• Bottle Size: 750 ml
• Production: 8000

Productive Notes: maceration in contact with the skins for 40 days. Spontaneous fermentation in steel tanks. Aging in large oak barrels for 24 months, plus 1 year in concrete tanks.