"Ruschena" - Cascina 'Tavijn

"Ruschena" - Cascina 'Tavijn

"Ruschena" by Nadia Verrua is a wine produced from red grapes. Spontaneously vinified, it refines for a few months in steel and large oak barrels. It is bottled with its precious label. It is a wine with a more marked, less linear character than "Teresa", sometimes wild, very true and original. Ruschena has a slightly opaque ruby ​​red color. The nose is initially vinous, intense, spicy, with a powerful fruit and a touch of volatile to confer further intensity. In the mouth it is mottled with spices, bitter oranges, with bitter and vegetable tones. The flavor is compact, almost caustic.

Service

Let's taste the hammer at a 16/18 ° temperature in tulip goblets. Daily wine.

Pairings

Ruschena accompanies first courses, second courses of meat, to try with a pork tenderloin in porcini crust.

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.