- home - the company - our wines - contact us wine and Oltrepo Pavese --Wine index --PUNTOFERMO AGED IN OAK BARRELS --BONARDA DOC OLTREPO PAVESE ------ -> in the Winery, in the barrel - in the bottle In the WINERY, in the BARREL The Bonarda of the same 2001 vintage made from Croatina grapes alone and aged in oak barrels basically undergoes the same initial processing as "classic" Bonarda; however, it is transferred to small medium-roasted French Oak barrels in which malolactic fermentation takes place around mid-November. Afterwards bâtonnage takes place and in May it is decanted into a tank for the removal of the lees and cleaning of the tanks. Our wine is then decanted back into the cleaned tanks, clarified, then bottled, after about a 10-month spell inside wood.