Sweet
Stransì
By Ioppa, Alto Piemonte, Piemonte, Italy
A red passito from naturally dried grapes, aged five years in barrique.
Tasting notes
Very intense ruby red. Nose rich in complex notes: spices, ripe red fruit, sour cherry, small black fruits and light vanilla. Very structured, well balanced between sugar and acidity, a light tannic note keeps it harmonious, with a long finish.
Pairs well with
Creamy and blue cheeses, game, chocolate cake with berry sauces
Technical details
- Style
- Sweet
- Denomination
- Vino Rosso
- Production area
- Romagnano Sesia (province of Novara), Alto Piemonte; grapes dried naturally from late September to March
- Soil
- Mixed, mostly clay on the hilltop and sand mixed with loose pebbles on the slopes (estate-wide description)
- Harvest
- Mid-September (first grapes picked, set in small crates to dry)
- Vineyard planting
- Vines 20 to 45 years old; 4,200 vines/ha; yield 60 q/ha
- Vinification
- Dried naturally in the ventilated microclimate from late September to March. Steel tank, skin contact for the first 10 days while fermentation starts; then the must is separated from the skins and moved to small barrels, where fermentation continues slowly for at least 60 days until it stops naturally, leaving a marked residual sugar. Wine yield 20%. Aged 60 months in oak barriques, then 12 months in bottle.
- Serving temperature
- 14-16°C