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Nebbiolo d'Alba

Appellation

Nebbiolo d'Alba is an appellation in Italy across 32 communes. The rules allow red and rosé wine, based on Nebbiolo. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
DOP (DOC/DOCG)
Category
Quality Sparkling Wine/Wine
Protected since
1973-09-18
Area
50,160 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W
34.39 × 30.19 km
Centre
44.7043° N, 7.9092° E
Grapes
Nebbiolo
Max yield
77 hl/ha
Min planting density
3,300 vines/ha
Irrigation
Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town
4.6 km east of Bra
Nearest city
32 km south-west of Asti 74,348 people
To the sea
69 km
Rivers nearby
Tanaro (1.8 km) · Varaita (19 km)
Same latitude
Willamette Valley (United States), Nova Scotia (Annapolis Valley) (Canada)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
124–660 m
Mean elevation
282 m

Measured over the whole outline on 43,057 elevation cells of about 109 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wines and grape rules

Nebbiolo d’Alba Red
Nebbiolo
max 63 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha
Nebbiolo d’Alba Superiore Red
Nebbiolo
max 63 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha
Nebbiolo d’Alba Spumante Red · Quality Sparkling Wine
Nebbiolo
max 77 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha
Nebbiolo d’Alba Spumante Rosè Rosé · Quality Sparkling Wine
Nebbiolo
max 77 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha

Vintages: Piedmont (Barolo, Barbaresco)

305
406
407
408
309
510
411
312
513
314
415
516
317
318
519
420
521
322
423
324

Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 32

Wineries · 23

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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