Sparkling
Metodo Classico
By Ilaria Salvetti, Canavese, Piemonte, Italy
Organic Erbaluce metodo classico with no dosage, aged at least 30 months on the lees.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG Spumante
- Grape
- Erbaluce
- Production area
- Caluso, hills of the Ivrea Morainic Amphitheatre
- Soil
- Mostly rich in skeleton and sand, little clay, acidic pH
- Vineyard planting
- Espalier training with Guyot pruning (Simonit method), on the Caluso moraine hill facing Lake Candia
- Vinification
- Whole bunches gently pressed. Spontaneous first fermentation. Refermented in bottle with selected yeasts from organic certification. On the lees for at least 30 months. No dosage.