Nebbiolo

Also called Spanna, Chiavennasca, Prunent, Michet

100 wineries · 154 wines

The first of the Piedmont grapes to wake, ten days or so ahead of Barbera, and among the last to be picked. It crops unevenly: a kind spring brings a full year, a cold or wet one a thin harvest. The bunches are long and winged, the berries violet under a heavy bloom, their skins thin but tough and full of tannin. Alone in Barolo and Barbaresco it gives a garnet wine, dry and full-bodied, with a scent all its own.