Eugenio Collavini - Ribolla Gialla Brut Millesime' 2015

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Star-bright straw yellow with pale green highlights

Subtly elegant, fruit-led aromatics laced with floral essences of acacia blossom and lemon verbena

Fresh lemon savouriness perks up the elegant palate

Food Pairing: As an aperitif or with starters, soups and stewed fish, mollusks, especially warty venus shells

What’s In It: 100% Ribolla Gialla

How It Was Made:

The spurred cordon and Guyot-trained vineyards in the Colli

Orientali are carefully managed to yield suiitable fruit for

refermentation. Picking the meticulously selected bunches in

small cases is carried out only in the morning, when the northerly

breeze has dried their light veil of nocturnal humidity. Delicate

whole-berry pressing is followed by natural settling of the freerun must overnight. Fermentation at 14 °C is part in steel and

part in barriques.

In the following spring, the Ribolla Gialla is refermented really

slowly in large horizontal pressure tanks at 12 °C; it follows the

maturation on the lees that lasts no less than 30 moon cycles.

Subsequent bottling is in a completely oxygen-free environment.

More than 12 months in bottle are then necessary to round off

the long maturation process.

Finally, the bottles are packaged and protected by a unique

yellow veil to preserve the loving care that skilled winemakers

have lavished on the contents for almost four years of labour.