Taverna – Langhe Nebbiolo Tech – 2024
The vineyards: Gaia-Principe and Cottà are crus (MGA) of the municipality of Neive, historic property of the Taverna - Versio family. The third cru - Marcorino, is the “city vineyard” of Neive and occupies the Southern slope under the old borgo. The major part of the grapes for this Langhe Nebbiolo comes from Marcorino, then from our youngest vineyard at Cottà, called “Il Pilone” (converted to Barbaresco in 2024) and a small part comes from the old vineyards at Gaia-Principe.
The vintage: challenging from an agronomic standpoint, specifically due to excessive rainfall.
On the one hand, it completely replenished the soil's water deficit, which had been severely affected after three consecutive years of extreme drought.
On the other hand, the frequency of rainfall during flowering significantly impacted yields in some areas. It was warmer than 2014 (the last year with such heavy rainfall), but without the peaks seen in 2021-22-23.
As a result, grape ripening was very uneven. the variety: the Nebbiolo is the King of the Langhe, renouned all over the world for the unique, rich and ageworthy wines that it can produce.
It’s variety that shows best all the differences between the places where it grows. the wine: all the grapes from the 3 crus were harvested and fermented together.
The rainy and lacking heat peaks vintage resulted in a «slimmer» and lighter wine, with reduced tannic impact. the name: Tèch (read [tɛtʃ]) stands for «Tetti» in Piedmontese language. Apart from being home for part of our vineyards (Tetti is a subzone of Cottà MGA), Tetti is where our new winery is situated as well as our new agriturismo (see link below)
Extra information
This Langhe Doc Nebbiolo is from the harvest 2024, 100% Nebbiolo, vineyard situated in Neive, MGA Gaia-Principe, Marcorino, Cottà. Harvest was performed 15 october 2024
After the harvest the grapes are destemmed and crushed. The vinification is performed in stainless steel vats without temperature control and lasts 14 days with regular pump-overs. No postfermentation maceration was performed. in a stainless steel tank for 20 months.
Bottling was performed on 11 th July 2026, 1200 bottles
Alcohol percentage: 14.00%
