Ottavio - Cascina 'Tavijn

Ottavio - Cascina 'Tavijn

Ottavio is a rustic and pleasant red wine produced with red grapes. Fermentation is spontaneous with only indigenous yeasts with maceration on the skins for a week in steel and cement containers. Bottled the following spring without use, sulfur dioxide is added or filtered. Ottavio has a pale ruby ​​red color with floral and spicy aromas typical of Grignolino. On the palate it is fresh, pleasant, with light tannins and great drinkability.

.Service

We taste Ottavio at a temperature of 16/18 ° in tulip glasses. everyday wine.

Pairings

Ottavio goes with pasta dishes with meat sauce, meat to try a pasta with ragu of sausage.

Winery: Cascina 'Tavijn

The Verrua family, since 1908, vine-growing and wine from their own grapes. Verrua I have always worked with care and passion the five hectares of vineyards, the grapes and making wine directly selling the wines produced - about 20 thousand bottles a year - in an affectionate private clients. Nadia, with Daniela and Luigina sisters, represents the fourth generation of winemakers. Like many of the young people who decide to remain linked to the vineyard, it decided to undertake the bottling of its wines since 2001, relying on long experience of father Octavius ​​in the cellar and the advice provided by the Mario Redoglia. For three years, the practice organic farming company (certification body ICEA): on a sandstone-sand soil, for the screws, the result mainly of a clonal selection, using fertilizers such as manure and shredded biologically derived and copper, sulfur and pyrethrum, to protect them. Spontaneous fermentation is left purely indigenous yeasts and the wines, not filtered or clarified, are svinati once all the sugar is carried out in alcohol and allowed to stabilize naturally in barrels. They make on average 3 or 4 decanting.