"Packing no shortage of varietal character, expect a nose stacked high with smells of leather, licorice, prunes and spiced black cherry. The palate is rich and well fruited with plenty of tar and cherry-like flavour coupled with firm chalky tannins and a bitter drying finish. Drink it with five-spice duck."
Matt Skinner, Uncorked, The Sunday Age Magazine, April 3, 2011
Within the small Casa Freschi Langhorne Creek vineyard lies an area of nebbiolo that produces wine with a distinctive fragrance, energy and approachability in its youth. After fermentation and a brief maturation in seasoned French oakbarriques, these parcels are carefully blended and bottled young to capture the vibrant fruit, fresh juicy flavour, and opulent texture. The result is a wine with a vibrant red colour and a hedonistic perfume of cherry, raspberry, strawberry, prune, licquorice, herb, dried leaf, rose and violet. The palate is fresh and lively with layers of cherry and berry fruit flavours, supported by full, fine cleansing tannins and vibrant acidity
VINTAGE CHART
2010 - drink or keep to 2018 view tasting notes
2011 - spring 2011 release
La Signora
La Signora is a nebbiolo based wine produced from our Langhorne Creek vineyard. It is elegant and enchanting with a beguiling perfume and silky texture that sits on a bed of beautifully fine savoury tannins. Now released four and a half years after harvest, its purity, balance and structure make it a perfect accompaniment to good food, and enables it to reward long term cellaring. Nebbiolo, said to be the king of all Italian varieties, originates from the Piedmont region of North-West Italy. It is arguably the most challenging and rewarding grape variety that exists. Even with the highest standards of winegrowing and winemaking, great nebbiolo wines can only be produced from great sites.
Atypically good winter and spring rainfall resulted in ideal growing conditions leading up to an excellent flowering, fruit set and healthy balanced vine canopy. We experienced a warm and dry summer and autumn and, importantly, one without extremes. Although natural yields were above average, the small resultant yield was due to two bunch removal passes pre-harvest to ensure only perfectly ripe and healthy fruit reached the fermenter. 2006 characteristically produced very high amounts of perceptible tannin and acidity resulting in a slightly austere wine in its youth, but with the potential to drink well in the long term.
Medium deep red in colour, the wine displays a complex autumnal nose of cherry, cured meats, aniseed, violet and rose and dried herbs. The palate is savoury and multi-layered with ripe cherry and cured meat flavours, full, firm tannins and a cleansing finish.
Casa Freschi
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Langhorne Creek
Variety:
Wine Red - Nebbiolo
Size:
750mL
