Denomination: Smoked raisin wine selection
Bottle ml 500
Year 2006
This is the traditional wine par excellence; every family of peasants produced their Wine, attained through the choice of the best grapes in the Vineyard which were hung in the large kitchen rooms, where the fireplace was lit in winter– day and night. The grapes were strung on nails on the timber purlins in the ceiling. Smoke and heat from the fireplace dried up the watery component of the berries, and during Holy Week the berries were racked and placed first in small barrels, then in demijohns. Left in the cellars for continuous fermentation, casks were then tapped on demand. It was the most important wine and was served only on the most important occasions: the birth of a son, the bottle produced that year would be drunk on his wedding day, opened when one tundre kilograms of grain was thrashed, the visit of a distinguished guest, a gift to the local priest or the doctor.
From this tale, from this tradition, with the improvement of the Vineyard management, with the care and selection of the grapes, with oenological aiming to improve ( and not modify ) the final product...comes Angelicus.
Wine-Making and processing: The old Trebbiani grapes with sparse berries are hung in single bunches for 4/5 months in rooms where the fireplace is lit from time to time for smoking. This is followed by the manual selection of the grapes and a pressing in three phases for a total of 15 hours from which we obtain three choices, the must is cooled for 5 days to allow the coarse lees to settle, then, almost clear, it is sent to ferment.
At the end of this phase it is transferred to 112 liter demi-barriques to allow it to evolve where matures for 10 years without ever being opened.
The grapes: Are those that remain yellow, hand picked after raisining.
Flavour: Sweet, wellbalanced, persistent.
Perfume: Honey and ripe fruit, from blossom to pleasantly smoked.
Goes well with: All kinds of sweet pastry, fruit cakes, tarts, strong cheese.
Serving suggestions: Medium-size goblets, at 14° C.
