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 traditional hungarian goulash, soy and shrimp noodles or lamb tagine with vegetables and preserved lemons.

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

The wine region of Barbaresco is located in the region of Piémont of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Gaja or the Domaine Roagna produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Barbaresco are Nebbiolo, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Barbaresco often reveals types of flavors of cherry, baking spice or dried herbs and sometimes also flavors of balsamic, black olive or hibiscus.

In the mouth of Barbaresco is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 491 estates and châteaux in the of Barbaresco, producing 884 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Barbaresco go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb.

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Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon

Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.