Sparkling
Valè
By Tenuta San Sebastiano, Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy
A Charmat-method Brut from Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay, 9 months in autoclave.
Tasting notes
Fine, creamy perlage. Straw yellow. Wide, fresh, elegant bouquet with many toasted dried fruit notes. Bread crust, toasted dried fruit and dried rose with small red fruits; rich and persistent.
Pairs well with
Aperitif, excellent throughout a meal.
Technical details
- Style
- Sparkling
- Denomination
- Spumante Brut
- Grape
- Pinot Meunier 50%, Chardonnay 50%
- Production area
- Lu Monferrato (AL), altitude 270 m
- Soil
- Calcareous
- Exposure
- South
- Harvest
- Early August
- Vineyard planting
- 1 ha planted 2000, Guyot, 5,000 vines per hectare, 6,000 kg per hectare
- Vinification
- Hand-picked in crates, chilled and pressed whole-bunch with 12 hours of maceration, fermented at 20 C for 7 days, no malolactic. A few months in steel on the lees, then refermentation in autoclave for 9 months by the Martinotti/Charmat method, 3 months in bottle. 3,000 bottles.
- Serving temperature
- 8 to 10 C, open at the moment
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