Antaeus Nature Ecru Millesimo 2001.
Background:
not know for what reason, always dark Oltrepo 'Pavese attracted me, perhaps because of my summers spent in monferrato which is part of a system that incorporates the low hills preapenninico Monferrato, Tortona, the Gave, Liguria, 'Oltrepo' Emilia.
This perceptual continuity of the hills and the poignant songs by Paolo Conte (Stradella accordions), I have always tied to a world so close and yet so far.
dell'Oltrepo's speech 'is the Piedmont, the winery is the Crota and crutin (place more defiladed for aging and storing wine).
summer I actually went to the cellar Viarigi there is Canva (from the French caves) and is said to hurry sgagià of smoke (I think from DEGAGE French) a world that of Monferrato, Oltrepò of Piacenza hills are small enclave imbricate each other, with the territory, with the traditions, historically distant and forgotten by the power and economics. same damn story elephantine wineries that paid little and not very strongly stimulated an area suited, producing a regression technique and the flight of young people from rural
are cultivated more or less the same grape, barbera all with an important distinction Oltrepo 'over time has developed a specialization also to some international white grape varieties that you are well acclimatized.
Pinot Noir and Riesling grapes are the symbol of the Oltrepo '.
Special Italian interpretation of the two varieties, the futile search for France and Germany, here is perhaps more heat than softness sensuality, one that recalls some summer afternoons motionless with a warm moist air and amniotic Obsessive chirping of crickets.
For years growers sold their pinot sparkling wine of Italy with the knowledge that the native soil is very difficult for the pinot.
If it were not for Oltrepo 'we are the land of Blanc de Blanc.
After years of injections of property to foreigners chardonnay has started to bottle and sparkling wine on site and have applied for and obtained the DOCG on sparkling wines with natural fermentation in the bottle.
Oltrepo 'is a land of Blanc de Noir.
E 'the alter ego of Franciacorta also in terms of socio-economic one is the daughter of another economic miracle is the result of atavistic resistance to misery and oppression with episodes of brilliance typical of the peasants.
I in a totally "simpatethic" I prefer the latter.
The wines are all good but a story of suffering and hard work makes them more tasty.
In fact Oltrepo 'is the youngest son of sparkling wines in Lombardy.
This is an opportunity for us consumers because less fame more quality at lower cost.
Change the oil in my car, fill up and bow to Casteggio.
For I have drunk delight of 'Az. Antaeus the Nature Ecru Millesimo 2001 in magnum.
A Blanc de Noir 100% Pinot Noir.
Froth, perlage all right (I get bored a bit 'to write platitudes).
intense color with greenish coppery brown and crisp.
beautiful to see.
Perfumes Blanc de Noir intense, black bread, sourdough acids, cigar box with a few drops of brandy and orange zest.
In the mouth soft and smooth despite only 2.5 g / l of reducing sugars and acidity important.
The body (a large dry) and supports the hardness scale and gives us a wine that I like.
A Blanc de Noir, which comes from the warm, sweet ripeness of the grapes from the au point which leaves intact the acidity but the vertical file.
Without arrogance call it a wine of terroir.
What terroir.
I would drink up all the great chicken with coconut milk and spices of Southeast Asia.
Another one of those bottles that end up too quickly.
Aridity the cellar
100% Pinot Noir Guyot and cordon density 3.000/5.000 strains has installations.
Fermentation in stainless steel.
2 / 3 g / l of reducing sugars (Brut Nature).
Secondary fermentation least 30 months.
Malolactic not reached.
Enjoy it
louis
PS
Not satisfied I also opened a Antaeus Brut Reserve Pinot Poet Black 2001.
Even cooler than the first, dry, tangy and sharp in his mouth, ready to defy the years.
85% Pinot Noir Guyot and cordon density 3.000/5.000 strains has installations.
15% Chardonnay Guyot and cordon density 3.000/5.000 strains has installations.
Fermentation in stainless steel. Partial aging in barrels of the bases.
disgorgement 10/08.
8 g / l of reducing sugars (Brut).
Secondary fermentation least 30 months.
Malolactic not reached.
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