Anima Rara Metodo Classico Vespaiola

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The Product in Brief:

✓ Breganze DOC

✓ 100% Vespaiola Metodo Classico

✓ Vintage: 2019 disgorgement 1 April 2025

✓ Alcohol content: 12,50%

✓ Rest on the lees 60 months zero dosage

✓ Suited to demanding dishes, including rich and fatty ones.

Winegrowing in the Vicenza area has very ancient roots. Fossil remains of Vitaceae found at Salcedo bear witness to the vine as far back as the Tertiary era. A defining moment for local viticulture dates to the end of the 1200s, when the Codice Vineale of Bassano laid down strict rules for the production and trade of wine. Vespaiola is a historic variety, loved by the Venetians and already praised in 1610 by Andrea Scotto for its quality. Its name derives from the way the sweet juice of the grapes attracts wasps. After hard decades of phylloxera and world wars, the revival of viticulture culminated in 1969 with the recognition of the Breganze DOC, which protects this iconic wine of the area. Anima is the life, the history and the essence of the Breganze land. It is the most authentic expression of Vespaiola in its metodo classico, zero dosage version. The aromas of Vespaiola unfold with elegance, keeping freshness on the palate and great drinkability.

Carefully selected during the harvest, the grapes are picked into 10 kg crates to preserve their integrity. After gentle pressing, the must ferments at a controlled 18°C and is matured in steel tanks up to tirage. Second fermentation in the bottle follows, where the wine stays on the lees for 60 months until disgorgement. No liqueur is added, making it a pure and authentic Dosaggio Zéro. Intense straw yellow colour, aromas of Mediterranean herbs, candied citrus and apple. The taste is dry, full, mineral and crisp, with good aromatic length. It goes well with fish starters (swordfish carpaccio or similar), raw ones too (oysters), shellfish in general, baccalà mantecato, fried fish and vegetables.

Product Sheet:

Grape variety: 100% Vespaiola

Production area: Colle di Santa Lucia in Breganze, in the Vicenza foothills.

Soil characteristics: Soil of volcanic origin, inverted Guyot training system, yield 120 q/ha.

Tasting notes: The colour is an intense straw yellow with green highlights. The nose offers elegant floral notes of acacia and camomile, with spicy shades of sweet tobacco and hints of passion fruit. On the palate it is dry and full, with a light acidity that lifts its freshness, and good aromatic length.

Serving temperature: It should be served at a temperature of 10-12°C.

Alcohol content: 12,50%

Ageing: Second fermentation in the bottle, where the wine stays on the lees for at least 60 months until disgorgement. No liqueur is added, making it a pure and authentic Dosaggio Zéro.

Notes on Vinification: Carefully selected during the harvest, the grapes are picked into 10 kg crates to preserve their integrity. After gentle pressing, the must ferments in new acacia barriques and stays there for 9 months before the second fermentation.

Yield per hectare: 120 q/ha.

Harvest period: Second ten days of September, picked by hand.

Food pairings: It goes well with fish starters (swordfish carpaccio or similar), raw ones too (oysters), shellfish in general, baccalà mantecato, fried fish and vegetables.

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