Cuvee 60 Pas Dosè Rosè - Casa Caterina

Cuvee 60 Pas Dosè Rosè - Casa Caterina 

The Cuvee 60 Pas Dosè Rosè by Casa Caterina is an intense and complex classic method sparkling wine that embodies the essence and passion of the two producers Aurelio and Emilio. Born from pure Pinot Noir grapes, grown with care and respect, this classic method expresses its personality through a long evolution on indigenous yeasts for 60 months, which gives it complexity and depth. Disgorgement "à la volée", without dosage, preserves its integrity and purity. The intense pink color and the fine and persistent perlage release aromas of pomegranate and rose petals. The palate instead enjoys ample freshness and minerality. To be enjoyed with an aperitif before meals, or in combination with a scampi cream risotto.

Service

We taste the Cuveè 60 Rosè at a temperature around 8/10°C. A wine to be drunk immediately but if left in the cellar for a few years it can offer pleasant surprises. 

Pairings

The Brut Cuveè 60 is excellent as an aperitif, it can be combined with fish, ideal with shellfish and raw fish tartare.

Cellar: Casa Caterina

The company Casa Caterina is at Monticelli Brusati in the province of Brescia and is expertly led by the brothers Aurelio and Emilio Del Bono. The vineyard area is about 10 hectares and production is limited to 30,000 bottles. Through biodynamic viticulture and exclusively natural winemaking techniques, the company produces bubbles, red and white wines out of the ordinary. The main varieties grown are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Mounier. But Casa Caterina reserves other surprises, in fact among the vineyards are "hiding" even some rows of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Marsannay Gewurztraminer..e or beyond. With these vines brothers of Bono produce still wines by the scents and flavors. Their trademark, however, are the bubbles: the surprising fact is that, even if located in Franciacorta, the brothers Del Bono renounced D.O.C.G. and to all the advantages that this entails. They wanted to get away from the Franciacorta and produce bubbles in their own way: not all doses and long refinement on the lees. Cellar refermentations occur spontaneously in the bottle, without the addition of liquer de tirage. The long aging on the yeast do the rest, creating a very elegant bubbles that have nothing to envy to the much more famous "bubbles" French. Considerable knowledge of their work, intellectual honesty to the point of exit name to be free to work in the way they believe and not to release some labels in the years when the grapes do not seem appropriate to make his wine. Natural winemaker, nor organic or biodynamic, the only certification comes from the tasting of its wines, the use of pinot noir and chardonnay, from the use of barrels of five different woods, sulfur and copper in the vineyard when needed, the technique cold in the cellar used to leave clean the base wine before taking the froth.