Tenuta Travaglino – Poggio della Buttinera – Pinot Noir Reserve D.O.C. – Avvenice

Tenuta Travaglino – Great Wines Since 1868

The Travaglino estate is located in Calvignano, which is a little town based in the Oltrepo’ Pavese. The area, in the south of Lombardy, that wedge from the fertile Po’ Valley to the Mediterranean Sea, is well known for having a bunch shape which bounds with the regions of Liguria, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna. The estate has the privilege to raise 400 hectares in a single batch – Two hundred of them are forests destined as a wild hog hunting reserve, which, has been done with the purpose to maintain away the poachers. Hundred and twenty hectares are arable lands and the remaining eighty hectares are vineyards. Moreover, within the property, there are 12 farmsteads, a historic village and an inn with restaurant and few rooms.

Tenuta Travaglino – Poggio della Buttinera – Pinot Noir Reserve D.O.C.

Bright garnet-red, delicate and complex aroma rich of fruity notes and harmoniously spicy nuances. The taste is full and sapid, pleasantly tannic, very persistent and balanced. Wine with good structure suitable with preparations of red meat, game and aged cheeses. Great with the supreme meat of guinea fowl with balsamic vinegar.

Data Sheet

Vineyard Location: Poggio della Buttinera – Calvignano

Soil Type and Exposure: Brown soil – limestone, on marl and clay. South-west facing at 200 m. above sea level

Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Noir

Denomination: DOC (controlled designation of origin)

Cultivation Method and Planting Density: Guyot with 4,800 vines per hectare

Maximum Yield per Hectare: 5,500 litres

Grape Harvest: Traditional hand-picking from 15th to 20th September

Wine Making: Obtained by batch-pressing a selected lot of Pinot Noir grapes, with maceration of the skins for circa 8 days

Muturation: From the Spring after harvesting, it is matured for 12 months in French oak barrels

Bottling: The month of January following the harvest

Technical Specifications: Sugars: traces; alcohol content 13 °

Bottling: Bottled 24 months after the harvest and stored in underground cellars for another 12 months. Sold from the 4th year

Description: Bright garnet-red colour, delicate, complex bouquet, rich in fruity and harmonious spicy notes. It has a fullbodied, persistent and decidedly balanced taste

Pairing: Suitable to accompany red meats, game and mature cheeses

Packaging: Burgundy bottles in boxes of 6 bottles

Serving Temperature: 16 – 18° C