"Ottavio Funk" - Cascina 'Tavijn

Ottavio Funk  - Cascina 'Tavijn

Ottavio Funk is a sparkling wine that comes from red grapes with the method of refermentation in the bottle. After manual harvesting and destemming, fermentation is spontaneous in the cellar with only indigenous yeasts with maceration on the skins for a week in steel and cement containers. Bottled the following spring without the use of sulfur dioxide addition or filtering. Ottavio Funk is ruby ​​red in color. The nose has floral and spicy aromas typical of Grignolino. On the palate it is fresh, pleasant, with light tannins and great drinkability.

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

Pairings

Ottavio Funk 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.