Description
Clemente, as innovator was always closely and carefully following the evolution of the new productions technologies and methods, so, near to the 1950, he was the first one in the region to adopt the Martinotti – Charmat method to produce sparkling wines, where the achievements had been recorded and evidenced in an unusual film made by the RAI ( Italian Radio Television) in 1958 titled “Lo Spumante Italiano” (Italian sparkling wine).
The family winemaking traditions go way back to the pioneer Secondo Guasti, who emigrate to California in 1881 carrying with him cuttings of Barbera vine, within a decade using cutting of those vines to achieved having planted the world’s largest vineyard at that time. The result of his hard work is still visible today in the town he funded, which still bears his surname.
Ageing: 18 months in oak barrel plus 6 months resting in the bottle. it’s an excellent wine to preserve and keep in evolution for many years in the bottle.
Aroma: Complex and intense notes of fresh violet followed by fresh red roses, ample and intense notes of tart cherry, ripe red raspberries and blackberries, Vanilla along light essence of tobacco, finished in a delicate hint of oak.
Taste: It is an elegant medium to full body, dry, smooth, warm, and rounded wine, with great acidity along low tannins, a very pleasant minerality through a persistent finish, very well balanced and finest . This is the wine which has been preserved our winemaking family’s secret traditions since 1946.
