Marcello ColFondo Vino Rosato Frizzante 2021 - Voltumna

Marcello ColFondo Sparkling Rosé Wine - Voltumna

MArcello ColFondo is a sparkling wine produced from Sangiovese and Pinot nero grapes. The grapes are harvested slightly earlier than the normal ripening period usually at the end of September. After pressing, fermentation is allowed to continue with the use of only indigenous yeasts in a steel tank. With the must still in fermentation, it is bottled to give way to the refermentation. This method, called ancestral, allows to have fragrant aromas and a marked acidity. Marcello ColFondo presents a pinkish color. On the nose aromas of red berry fruit with earthy and bloody notes. At the sip it is agile, with a marked agility, sapid, in short, a particular and extremely enjoyable glass.

Service

We taste Marcello ColFondo at a temperature of 8/10 ° in flute ballon. Wine to drink immediately. It is advisable to keep it in a horizontal position in a cool, damp and dark cellar.

Pairings

Sparkling wine that is excellent as an aperitif, with fish appetizers, to try with a shrimp tempura.

Cellar: Voltumna

Voltumna is an agricultural cooperative based in the Florentine province of Mugello Valdisieve. on the Tuscan Apennines, where the soil is purely clayey The cooperative manages a few hectares of Sangiovese and two small plots of pinot noir in the middle of the wood, producing wines that are still, good and cheap. In 2012 they took over the reins of the cooperative Marzio Politi and his wife who were already working inside it. First of all they decide to give it the name "Voltuman" as the Etruscan divinity of the earth and the soil, protector of the wine, from whose name derives the word "fortune". Later, helped by Michele Lorenzetti di Macea, they decided to cultivate the vines in a biodynamic regime, in total respect of nature and its places, following the rhythms of nature. In the cellar spontaneous vinification in steel without temperature control, malolactic in wood, aging in barriques of various stages inherited from neighboring companies but in the process of replacement with larger barrels, no filtration or clarification before bottling. The production is very limited; for now on the 10 thousand total bottles, among which Marcello on yeasts are distinguished, a sparkling wine produced from Sangiovese and Pinot Nero grapes, and the Pinot Grigio produced with a long maceration on the skins.