Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo igt 2018

Le Strie

Teglio Lombardia

Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo igt 2018 2018

Type: Red

GRAPES VARIETIES AND VINEYARDS: The most important grape variety is, of course, Nebbiolo grape which accounts for 95% of all the grapes.
The remaining 5% is made up of Rossola, Pignola, Brugnola: they are local grapes varieties that you occasionally can find in Valltellina Valley vineyards.
Most of the grapes come from vineyards located in Valtellina Superiore DOCG zone.
VINIFICATION: We picked the grapes by the end of october using small boxes containing about 20 kg, each.
The boxes were carried as soon as possible to our cellar where the grapes were put through the de-stemmer and crusher.
The crushed grapes were pumped into a stainless steel tank where alcoholic fermentation took place.
The maceration time lasted 7 days.
After the end of the fermentation process, we drained the wine off. Then we racked it off and let it mature in stainless steel vats for about 7 months before bottling.
We used no oak barrels for making this wine.

Grape yield: 75 ql/Ha
Yield wine/grapes: 65%
Bottles produced: 2666

MAIN FEATURES OF THE WINE
COLOR: Ruby red
PERFUMES: Fruity: cherries, raspberries,
blackberries
TASTE: Dry, slightly tannic, long
ALCOHOLIC
CONTENT: 13,0 % by volume
TOTAL ACIDITY: 4,57 g/l
SUGAR: 0,6 g/100 ml
TOTAL DRY
EXTRACT: 25,5 g/l
TASTING
TEMPERATURE: 16-18 °C
FOOD MATCHES: Roasted red meat, cheese

Available

€ 16,50 Price per bottle

Quantity

Bottle

Totale: € 16,50

Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo igt 2018 2018

Type: Red

Data Sheet
Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo igt 2018
Le Strie

Wine: Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo igt 2018
Company: Le Strie
Year: 2018

Country: Italia
Region: Lombardia
Production: Teglio

Type: Red
Size: Bottiglia 0,75l
Consortium:

Alcohol Content: 13,0% vol
Food matches: Cured meat, Roasted Meat, Red meat, Noble poultry, Meat sauce

Le Strie Company sheet

The territory
Valtellina wine district is located in Italy, Lombardy region, north east of Milan, in the middle of the Alps, close to the Swiss border.
It is one of the few places in Italy where Nebbiolo grape variety is grown.
In Valtellina valley you can find beautiful terraced vineyards which dates back to centuries ago: they are very hard to work on but they are capable to give fine Nebbiolo wines with unique features.

The farm
LE STRIE winery is a wery small, family-run farm, dedicated to producing high quality wines in very small numbers: the average production is about 9500 bottles per year.
There are four of us: Luciana, Marisa, Paolo and Stefano and we grow directly our vineyard which is a bit less than two hectars wide.
Most of the grapes comes from our vineyards and we buy only a small amount of them.
We promote and sell directly our wines.
The cellar is located in the town of Ponte in Valtellina, Via S. Ignazio snc

The wines
We have four kind of wines: all of them are red and come from Nebbiolo grapes.
They are: Valtellina Superiore d.o.c.g. “Le Strie”; Sforzato d.o.c.g. “Le Strie”; Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo i.g.t. “Sassifraga”; Rosso di Valtellina d.o.c..
Our wines are traditional ones and they express the unique features of Nebbiolo grapes grown in the terroir Valtellina.
In order to make fine wines, we keep the yelds low: on average, 60 quintals per hectare.
We could be allowed, by law, to reach 80 quintals per hectare.
As for vinification process, we work in a traditional way.
It means that for making Valtellina Superiore d.o.c.g. and Sforzato d.o.c.g. the grapes are crushed, destemmed and fermented in stainless steel vats and then allowed to mature in large oak barrels.
As for the Alpi Retiche Nebbiolo i.g.t., the grapes are fermented and matured in stainless steel vats.

Matching and serving our wines
To make the most out of our products, it is advisable to match them with food: roasted meat, mature chees, game.
Serving temperature: 16-18°C.
Glasses: big ones, baloon type.
If kept in the right conditions, our wines are capable to last for over 20 years.