Grignolino d'Asti
Styles
Principal grape varieties
Terroir
Natural factors
- Origin localized in the hills between Asti and Casale, still today the principal growing zone for this variety.
- A highly demanding variety in terms of climate and soils, difficult to cultivate and vinify.
Human factors
- Use as a 'chiaretto' wine attested as early as the sixteenth century, with the first written records dating to the late 1700s.
- European vine epidemics reduced the growing area of Grignolino more than other varieties, concentrating it in the hills between Asti and Casale Monferrato.
Product characteristics
- A wine of sixteenth-century origins as a 'chiaretto', characterized by the pale color typical of thin-skinned red varieties.
- A variety 'highly demanding in terms of climate and soils, difficult to cultivate and vinify', which produces a wine that is 'original, unpredictable, and idiosyncratic'.
Terroir / wine link
- A highly demanding variety in terms of climate and soils: this selectivity structurally ties Grignolino to its historic growing area between Asti and Casale Monferrato. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.
Sources
- eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A1186
- Official trade body site — Consorzio Barbera d'Asti e Vini del Monferrato