Sparkling
Calliope
By Cieck, Canavese, Piemonte, Italy
Calliope is Cieck's reserve sparkling wine, created in the mid-1990s after Remo Falconieri saw Champagne houses use wood to lend elegance to their top cuvees; part of the Erbaluce ferments and rests in small oak barrels before blending.
Tasting notes
Straw yellow with golden highlights; very fine, persistent bubbles; fresh, intense bouquet of golden delicious apple and vanilla, reminiscent of pineapple and wildflowers; full, harmonious palate with good acidic vigour and long yeast and crusty-bread sensations
Pairs well with
Excellent as an aperitif and through a full meal, with strongly flavoured mature cheeses, elaborate fish dishes and rich sauces
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG Spumante
- Grape
- Erbaluce
- Production area
- San Giorgio Canavese, Piedmont
- Soil
- Loose moraine soils, rich in stone
- Exposure
- South-east
- Vineyard planting
- Pergola training; altitude approx. 320 m above sea level; average vine age approx. 30 years
- Vinification
- Brut style. A third of the must ferments in small oak barrels and spends about nine months on noble lees in barrel, then is blended with steel-fermented Erbaluce for bottle fermentation; matures at least 48 months on lees with manual remuage and degorgement, followed by a further six months in bottle
- Serving temperature
- 8-10°C
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