Historical background
This wine corresponds to the entire territory of a single small municipality south of Alba, spread across a hill at 500 metres above sea level. The preference of Diano’s producers for this variety and the experience passed down through generations has, over time, so precisely identified the best positions for the vineyards that it was possible to delimit them precisely as far back as 1986, through the municipal administration’s publication of the map of areas for the attribution of the vineyard name mention.
Production Area
Produced exclusively in the municipality of Diano d’Alba.
Characteristic
Diano d’Alba has an intense ruby red colour with youthful violet highlights, a fragrant and fruity aroma, marked by marasca cherry and sometimes blackberry or jam, a dry, nervous, clean flavour, pleasantly influenced by a varietal aftertaste of bitter almond that stimulates the palate. It possesses some aromatic traits, including geraniol, that make it pleasant to drink young, with the strength of moderate ageing. With ageing of at least 18 months it may display the “Superiore” type. Master Gino Veronelli had placed it among the wines he loved most.
Geographical
Mentions
The most wine-suited areas of this territory are called sörì, which in Piedmontese dialect means “well-exposed place”. In total, the sörì entirely within the municipality of Diano d’Alba number 76, and in 2010 the Consortium proposed them to the Ministry of Agriculture to give them the status of Additional Geographical Mentions, as was done for Barbaresco and Barolo wines.
