Canelli

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils of marine sedimentary origin from the Tertiary period: sandy-marly, marly, clayey, and calcareous deposits, with no exposed bedrock.
• Temperate-continental Po Valley climate: heat summation ST10 = 2,200 degree-days, rainfall 900 mm/year over 120 rain days.
• Area between the Tanaro and Bormida rivers, Belbo valley, at altitudes of 165–500 m; hilly topography with peaks of 300–500 m ensures ventilation and drainage.

• Cultivation of Moscato documented in Canelli from 1344 (Statuti del Comune); modern techniques refined from the late nineteenth century onward.
• Pruning exclusively to Guyot with a cane of 8–10 buds; trained on a vertical trellis system with manual harvesting of the grapes.

• The nose is structured around three registers: floral (acacia, wildflowers), fruity (apricot, peach, russet apple), and citrus-honeyed; in the Riserva, balsamic notes (sage, lemon balm, thyme) and candied fruit develop alongside petrol character or sweet spices such as saffron.
• Sweet on the palate, with a minimum total acidity of 4.5 g/l in balance with the residual sugar; actual alcoholic strength between 4.50% and 6.50%, with possible light effervescence and an overpressure of up to 2.5 bar at 20 °C.

• Tertiary marly-calcareous soils, poor and low in fertility, encourage controlled vine vigour and enhance the synthesis of terpenols (linalool) in Moscato Bianco.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-02810
• Official trade body site — Consorzio per la tutela dell'Asti