Nuova Cappelletta / Piemont
"Nuova Cappelletta" so to speak, is the hobby of Adele Fracchia, daughter of a Turin industrialist family. For your interest in whole food nutrition they gained access to anthroposophy and presented the 1965 Azienda acquired fully biodynamic farming methods in order. There are a total of 220 hectares farmed, but only used 36 ha vineyard. Besides wine durum wheat is grown for whole-grain pasta and extensively operated cattle here. Cattle are only required to produce bio-dynamic applications for their own use as well as for almost all Demeter producers in Piedmont. According friendly is handled here with the cattle. The Department of Viticulture is perfectly equipped. There is an in-house laboratory and a wine winemaker, monitors the cultivation and development of the wines. The basement is fully equipped with stainless steel tanks to protect the wine against responding during fermentation and storage of oxygen in the air. This especially necessary in the production of light, fresh white wines 'reductive expansion' also achieved amazing results in red wines. The "Barbera del Monferrato" is expanded in this modern sense, maintaining, supported by the gentle carbonic fermentation, its particularly mild, gerbstoffarme freshness and lightness and taste yet full and fruity.
Winzer: Alessandro Uslenghi
Gesamtanbaufläche: 19 ha
Böden: Lehm
Bio seit: 1983
Rebsorten: Barbera, Grignolino, Freisa, Nebbiolo, Cortese, Chardonnay
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- 233
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full-bodied & elegant
Ripe berry aromas on the nose invite drinking. Fruity notes of sour cherries and berries permeate the wine. Animating acid-fruit
play with finely polished Tannins.
- SKU:
- 1175
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light & fresh
Cortese not only produces very fine wines in Gavi! Acacia flowers, discreet hazelnut aromas with a delicate bitter finish. A pioneer in the field of unsweetened wine. Highly interesting!
Without added sulfur!
- SKU:
- 1128
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Incredibly exciting, vibrant Barbera without added sulfur and yet even after days of opening totally fresh! Alternating between sweet and sour cherry flavors with a lot of structure. Almost no residual sugar but with lots of juicy fruit. Very interesting!
Without additionally supplied sulfur!
- SKU:
- 369
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full-bodied & elegant
Barrique yes, but please not too much! Wonderfully elegant and complex Barbera, a nice change from all the heavyweights of the varietal. Finely woven and understated, but with abundance and juice.