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SPARKLING WINES

LE VEDUTE CELLARS - FRANCIACORTA BRUT DOCG

The winery climbs up the slopes of Monte Orfano, a territory linked to wine since ancient times. Technology comes to the service of the winemaker, who does not have to build but preserve what is in the grape by limiting itself to enhancing its intrinsic characteristics.

The vineyards, in conversion to an organic regime, are scattered throughout the Franciacorta area in order to grasp the various facets and changes based on the vintages.

Management is based on the utmost respect for nature, avoiding the use of herbicides and minimizing mechanical interventions.

The territory in which the vineyards are located is mostly hilly and formerly scattered with woods, it has recently been transformed with the planting of numerous vineyards with peculiar characteristics.

 

 

Local authorities are committed to safeguarding the landscape and conservation aspect both from the physical side and from the historical-cultural point of view.

In fact, there are numerous architectural testimonies of antiquity (monasteries, churches, abbeys, villas and castles of the medieval era).

 

Characteristics

  • Grape Variety: Chardonnay 80%, Pinot Noir 20%
  • Yield per hectare: 90 quintals / ha
  • Total sugar at disgorgement: 4 g / L
  • Analytical data: Alcohol 12.5%; B.C. Tot. 6.8 g / L; pH 3.10; SO2 tot 69 mg / l

 

 

Vinification

After a careful selection of the grapes, we proceed with a soft pressing and fermentation in steel at a controlled temperature.

The sparkling wine base is aged on the fine lees for 6 months with weekly battonages.

The refinement on the lees in the bottle lasts for a period ranging from 18 months to 24 months after which, with a careful manual remouage, the residue of the yeast is brought to the tip for the last degorgement operation.

 

Tasting

Straw yellow color with fine and persistent perlage. Delicate olfactory notes of white flowers that are completed with hints of bread crust and pastry.

In the mouth it is complex and balanced, with good acidity and long olfactory taste persistence.

Sugar
Sugar

Alcoholic beverages contain not only alcohol, but also sugar and fat. For this reason, their consumption should be kept under control in particular by those with weight problems or blood sugar control.

Ethyl alcohol
Ethyl alcohol

In the food sector, the term alcohol means ethyl (or ethanol), which is the basis of the so-called alcoholic beverages, in variable percentages and estimated with the so-called alcohol content.

Must
Must

Also called "white fermentation" is a winemaking technique that involves the immediate separation of the must from the skins, without maceration taking place. With this system it is possible to obtain white wines also from dark-skinned grapes.

Still wine Base
Still wine Base

From the harvest of Chardonnay, Pinot nero, Pinot bianco or Meunier grapes, we obtain the basic still wine to which, once bottled, yeasts and sugars are added

Sparkling yeasts
Sparkling yeasts

Yeasts are unicellular fungi having a spherical, oval or elliptical shape. Microorganisms that intervene during the fermentation phase.

Phosphates
Phosphates

Dibasic ammonium phosphate is one of the most complete foods for yeast as it provides the yeasts with both phosphorus and nitrogen in readily assimilable ammonia form.

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