Cortese with a difference. With Baccabianca, everything that the grape possesses is extracted. Every phenol, every pigment and every flavour particle from the grape skin finds its way into Guido Zampaglione's wine. After spontaneous fermentation, it matures for years in steel tanks and for even more years in the bottle. The current vintage is from 2011 and is bursting with freshness, energy and juiciness. The fact that it has just 12% alcohol and 12 mg/litre sulphites is further proof that doctrines (with such a minimal sulphite content and low alcohol, the wine should be long dead and buried) do not always stand up to reality.
Style
Not for beginners, although it is probably precisely those who would approach such a wine without prejudice. The colour is an autumnal orange. Dried thyme, stones and hazelnuts on the nose contrast with firm tannins, enormous tension, length, structure and ripe yellow fruit in the mouth.
Data sheet
- Grape variety: Cortese
- Vineyard: A high plateau at 350 m. Soil: sand & lime
- Harvest: By hand
- Vinfication: spontaneous | Wild yeast; 40-60 days on the skins
- Ageing: 1-2 years in the steel tank, 2-10 years in the bottle (depending on the year)
- Filtration: no
- SO₂:<50mg/l
- Alcohol content: 12% vol.
- Closure: Natural corks
- Drinking temperature: 10-12 ° C
- Perfect drinking maturity: From now on - 2030
- Content and price per liter: 0.75 l/(€ 33.20/l)
- All winemakers listed at Vinonudo work in their vineyards with organic fertilizer and natural preparations and do without the use of herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilizers.
