Metodo Classico
Metodo Classico 120 Mesi
Vino Spumante Metodo Classico Extra Brut
One hundred and twenty months of ageing in the very bottle in which the wine fermented. Ten years before the crown cap comes off.
Fermentation and ageing take place exclusively in the same bottle. The base wines come from Alto Adige, following the insight Paolo took from his father Edoardo.
Riddling is still done by hand, on wooden pupitres: every day a half-turn of the bottle, which is gradually tilted towards the vertical so that the lees gather in the neck. When the wine is clear it is disgorged, freezing the neck and expelling the deposit with nothing but the pressure of its own CO₂.
The dosage is kept to a minimum: what you drink is very nearly all of what ten years on the lees have built.
Blanc de Blanc
The white version, taut and mineral.
Rosé
The same work, a copper dress and red fruit.
In the vineyard
- Base wines
- Alto Adige
- Vintage
- 2009
In the cellar
- Method
- Classico — second fermentation in bottle
- Ageing
- 120 months on the lees
- Riddling
- By hand on pupitres
- Dosage
- Extra Brut
In the glass
- Serving temperature
- 6–8 °C