Sweet

Caluso Passito

By Podere Macellio, Canavese, Piemonte, Italy

Podere Macellio Caluso Passito

The estate's traditional sweet wine, made from Erbaluce dried on wooden mats until mid-February and aged in 350 l oak barrels. It keeps giving pleasure for decades.

Tasting notes

Peach, orange, bergamot, tobacco, honey, dried fig, acacia, cyclamen and toasted hazelnut.

Pairs well with

Dry pastries; above all a wine for contemplation.

Technical details

Style
Sweet
Denomination
Caluso Passito DOC
Grape
Erbaluce
Production area
Caluso (Canavese)
Vineyard planting
Family-owned vineyards, all Erbaluce: Al càsot (planted 1937, some ungrafted vines over 70 years old), La bataja (1957), Ij pere (1969), Italo (1970), Ij munie (1977), Cus ciora (1977)
Vinification
Erbaluce grapes are picked just ripe, placed in wide shallow baskets and laid on wooden mats in the drying rooms, where they dry until mid-February and reach over 30% sugar. About four quintals of selected grapes give roughly one hectolitre of aged wine. After drying the grapes are vinified and pressed, followed by a slow fermentation of several months in 350 l oak barrels and four more years of ageing.

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