Located in Canale, in the heart of Roero in a 19th-century farmhouse, the Monchiero Carbone winery was founded in 1990 with the aim of bringing together the vineyards owned by two families, Monchiero and Carbone, whose winemaking tradition dates back to 1918.
It is run by fourth-generation Francesco Monchiero, who has specialized in creating wines from native Piedmontese grapes, becoming one of the most representative wineries for the Roero DOCG appellation. The estate benefits from 35 hectares of vineyards located in the hills surrounding Canale, Vezza and Priocca, planted mainly with Arneis, Nebbiolo and Barbera.
Francesco Monchiero began his production of Roero docg in 1996, creating wines with a strong territorial identity, given by the peculiarities of the Roero territory rich in sandy soils that give Nebbiolo unique organoleptic characteristics of elegance and very velvety tannins. Over the past fifteen years Francesco has been experimenting and deepening the vinification of the Arneis grape, a varietal with great potential whose aging and evolutionary potential had not yet been demonstrated: he has thus taken up this challenge by creating the Roero Arneis Riserva version with Renesio Incisa, from the cru of the same name located in Canale, a white wine with a complex and multifaceted nose, rich in nuances reminiscent of candied apricot, saffron and incense, with a powerful and harmonious palate, thus proving that Roero is a particularly vocated wine territory that can boast not only the production of red wines with character and body but also a great white wine capable of Aromatic and evolutionary complexities.
Roero therefore has this dual vocation for Nebbiolo and Arneis, and in addition to the engraved Renesio the wine that most represents this dualism in Monchiero Carbone’s range is undoubtedly the Roero Riserva Printi: a Nebbiolo that can compare itself with the more structured Piedmontese reds, with hints of plum, sweet spices (cinnamon, cocoa) and noble woods, able to cope with decidedly long periods of aging in absolute tranquillity without, however, having to renounce the elegance typical of the Nebbiolos of Roero.
