Sparkling
Eos
By La Chimera, Valle di Susa, Piemonte, Italy
A lightly sparkling, bottle-fermented Avanà rosé, cloudy with its lees and made without added sulphites.
Tasting notes
Bright coppery pink. Intense, fragrant nose of wild flowers and small red berries such as raspberry and strawberry. Very fresh, savoury and lively on the palate, with a light sparkle and a mineral finish.
Pairs well with
Aperitivo, cured meats, fresh cheeses, fried fish, vegetable risotto, finger food
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Grape
- Avanà
- Production area
- Chiomonte, Valle di Susa (Torino)
- Soil
- Loose soils rich in stones, mainly schist and limestone
- Exposure
- South
- Harvest
- By hand, first half of September
- Vineyard planting
- 0.3 ha plot at 750 m; Guyot-trained vines about 15 years old; yield 5 to 6 t/ha
- Vinification
- Destemmed and crushed, with skin contact only for the length of one pressing cycle (about 2.5 hours); spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in stainless steel, bottled before fermentation ends so it finishes in bottle (ancestral method, frizzante sui lieviti); about 4 months on the lees in bottle; no added sulphites.
- Serving temperature
- 5 to 10°C (sources vary)
- Storage
- Drink young