Sparkling
Millesimé Pas Dosé
By La Mesma, Gavi, Piemonte, Italy
A vintage-dated (Millesimato) Metodo Classico Pas Dosé Gavi Spumante DOCG made from pure Cortese grapes, produced entirely at the estate from first fermentation through disgorgement, with lees aging from 24 to 120 months. The estate's oenologist, Massimo Azzolini, brings three decades of Metodo Classico experience from Trentino and Franciacorta.
Tasting notes
Marked vivacity, with primary floral and fruity aromas supported by pleasant acidity.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Millesimato Pas Dosé Gavi Spumante DOCG Metodo Classico
- Grape
- Cortese
- Harvest
- Grapes harvested slightly in advance for higher acidity and lower alcohol content
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot training; yield capped at max 95 q.li/ha
- Vinification
- All stages, vinification, sparkling, manual remuage and dégorgement, take place at the estate's winery. After the first fermentation in steel tanks, the wine undergoes tirage in spring (addition of sugar and yeast, then bottling, sealed with a crown cork). During refermentation in the bottle (prise de mousse) the bottles are kept lying down at about 13°C. The sparkling wine then rests on the lees for 24 to 120 months, refining and acquiring taste-olfactory complexity, before remuage separates the wine from the lees. Disgorgement (dégorgement) follows: bottles are placed upside down in a cylinder at -20°C to freeze the deposit, which is expelled on uncorking; the lost liquid is topped up with the same wine, without added sugar, giving a Metodo Classico Pas Dosé. The bottle is then sealed with a cork and a metal cage.
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