Etoile Du Raisin 75 CL. - Cascina degli Ulivi

Etoile Du Raisin - Cascina degli Ulivi

Etoile Du Raisin is a wine made from red grapes that come from a vineyard cultivated in biodynamic that grows on a clayey-calcareous soil. After the manual harvest of the grapes, fermentation is spontaneous with long maceration of 20-30 days in oak barrels. Aging on the lees for 12 months and then in 500 and 700 l tonneaux. for another 36 months. Etoile Du Raisin is ruby ​​red in color with spicy, red fruit aromas. In the mouth it is dry, pulpy, soft, nervous, of extraordinary intensity and balance and with a very long finish. A small masterpiece.

Service

It is recommended to serve it at a 16/18 ° temperature in tulip goblets. Daily wine, but if left in the cellars a few years can give you great emotions.

Pairings

It combines perfectly with first courses, poultry, to try with a mixed boil.

Cellar: Cascina degli Ulivi

Cascina degli Ulivi is a beautiful farm located on the hills of Novi Ligure in the province of Alessandria. Born in 1977 by an idea of ​​volcanic Stefano Belotti, great friend of Nicolas Joly, who can be considered the father of natural wines in Italy. Stefano then was only 18 years old, starting with one hectare of vineyard, with hard work and great commitment, and managed to create a company that now has 22 hectares, of which 10 are bred for vineyard and the others are cultivated for wheat and forage. But the project also includes cattle breeding and small farm animals and a farmhouse, where you can dine and dine by tasting local specialties and wines from the cellar. Stefano Belotti has immediately embraced the method of biodynamic agriculture and in its vineyards do not make pruning or cuttings, the treatments are limited to copper and zinc and sowed leguminous composites of legumes to make the soil fertile in a natural way. In the cellar spontaneous fermentations, indigenous yeasts and refinements in steel tanks or old chestnut barrels. Lately, in order to expand his life and teaching project to young people in a peasant culture.