The Winery Franco Rocca of Barbaresco of Piedmont

Winery Franco Rocca
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 367 of the estates of Piedmont.
It is located in Barbaresco in the region of Piedmont

The Winery Franco Rocca is one of the best wineries to follow in Barbaresco.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Barbaresco to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Franco Rocca wines

Looking for the best Winery Franco Rocca wines in Barbaresco among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Franco Rocca wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Franco Rocca wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Franco Rocca

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Franco Rocca

How Winery Franco Rocca wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of braciola (southern italy), pasta with mussels or eggplant moussaka with lamb.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Franco Rocca

On the nose the red wine of Winery Franco Rocca. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Franco Rocca. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Franco Rocca

  • 2010With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.24/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.07/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Franco Rocca.

  • Barbera
  • Nebbiolo
  • Dolcetto

Discovering the wine region of Barbaresco

Big sister of Barolo on the hills east of Alba. Pure Nebbiolo (100%) as red: garnet robe turning brick-orange, signature nose of rose, violet, cherry, raspberry, truffle, leather and tar, silky palate with firm but more elegant tannins, accessible younger than Barolo. Minimum 26 months' ageing (50 for Riserva), of which 9 in wood. Ages 10-25 years.

~677 ha DOCG on marl-limestone, tempered by the Tanaro. Three communes: Barbaresco, Neive, Treiso. UNESCO Piedmont.

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Discover the grape variety: Dolcetto

Supple, fruity reds best drunk young, with a sustained ruby robe and violet hues, melted tannins and an airy palate with low acidity, showing signature aromas of blackberry, plum, black cherry, almond and floral notes. Star of Dogliani DOCG and Dolcetto d'Alba DOC in Piedmont, perfect with cured meats and Piedmontese pasta. Emblematic native Piedmontese black grape whose name evokes the sweetness of ripe fruit.