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Brovia, Barolo Brea Vigna Ca Mia 2013
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Description
Brovia, Barolo, Brea Ca Mia, Piedmont, Italy, Still, Red, 2010
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Monica Larner
The 2013 Barolo Brea Vigna Ca' Mia offers beautiful dimension and depth with a slightly more robust or powerful approach. The fruit is carefully ripened to show dark plum and blackberry nuances. Delicate notes of spice, tar and tobacco give substance and length to the palate.
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Barolo Brea Vigna Ca' Mia captures the essence of this striking hillside site. A host of lavender, violet, menthol, licorice and tar notes open up first. Wonderfully translucent and yet powerful, the 2013 bristles with energy and pure class. Here, too, the tannins are remarkably polished for a young Serralunga Barolo. Dense, dark and powerful, with nearly buried tannins, the 2013 Ca' Mia is a superb wine with a very bright future.
About the Producer
Brovia was founded in 1863 and remains to this day a small, family owned and run winery. Broiva has one of the most impressive vineyards collection in the entire Barolo: 19 hectares of vineyards in Castiglione Falletto and Serralunga d'Alba which read like a list of the greatest vineyards in Barolo: Garbèt Suѐ, Rocche, Villero in Castiglione Falletto, and Brea in Serralunga d’Alba. Brovia’s production is tiny, around 60,000 bottles of wines per annum (half of it are Barolo). Yields in the vineyard and also in the winemaking are kept very low to produce the best wines. Brovia practices organic farming, uses natural yeast fermentation, maceration time is around 20-25 days. The wines are aged in the most traditionist method: in 3,000 liters botti (big barrels) until it is ready for bottling unfiltered.
