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Il Chiaretto wine “The drunken wife 2009″ is ready.

Daniella Petruccio — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:17:10 +0000

After a few days here at the Basia we have bottled the product the Chiaretto The drunken wife 2009. The bottleing which took place in an associated business is a special occasion: In fact in one day all the work spent in the vineyard and dedicated care in the wine cellar came to an end.

We would like to tell you about a special day. We have turned ourselves into reporters for Agrycult and we have tried to describe what happened in a video that is to say the air that is breathed from the big plant that carrys out all the operations of packing the bottles. It is in the square in front of the cellar where at the end of the day the doors are closed ( infact at the Basia like in many other small businesses this work is carried out by a specialised company but we are kitted out with all the right industrialised machinery used to package the goods.

The result is under your watchful eyes! we hope you will appreciate this small part of a story of a wine that we like to remember, a wine born from a combination of many factors: from the passion of real people, from the right care of the earth, from the tastes of a tradition which have transmitted us from quality to a fruit but also from the technology that today helps us value and conserve these prescious resourses up until the moment of uncorking a bottle on our table.

At this point even we 2.0 have to return to old habits: if you would like to get to know this wine, this chiaretto there isn’t anything else to do but try it! and it’s for this reason the net is still not set up ….. Come and see us!

See you soon!

A few words about wine

Michele Vitale — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:05:27 +0000

This is more or less what I’m telling when I introduce myself.

So, my little farm is in Abruzzo and thus it produces Trebbiano and Montepulciano wines.

I do not pick the Trebbiano grapes, no matter what (including the snow), until they reach at least 20° of sugar. Therefore sometimes it is a little overripe (not passito, but just a little ahead with aging).

The vinification changes depending if I decide (or better, if the grapes are up to) to do the maceration (the Lama Bianca wine) or not, but I do not use yeasts, activators, enzymes or other chemicals (even in the vineyard I only use Bordeaux mixture and sulfur).

The Montepulciano wine is fermented in concrete vats and then aged either in the concrete (il Fante wine) or in wood (the D’Ugni wine). Then there’s the Cerasuolo wine (I called it Lusignolo – the Nightingale – because when it turns out well it’s a wine which sings, actually) which is the montepulciano vinified in white, in other words a rosé.

And here they are!

For all my wines it’s the same story: no yeast, no chemicals, no additives, except that pieces of sulphite which is essential for the survival in the world of wine and in order to prevent the passage into the underworld of the vinegar.

Even with the sulfur, however, I use it far below the limits of organic wines (which of course use it).

The total number of bottles produced in a year is below ten thousand.

Soon, the second episode of ”la campagnola bella e l’inseparabile Zazzà” (the beautiful countrywoman and the inseparable Zazzà”

How Do You Feel About Bordeaux? (thepour.blogs.nytimes.com)

Cristiana prunes the vines

Michele Vitale — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:11:45 +0000

Time to prune the vines.

For Agrycult.com,

Cristiana Galasso from Feudo D’Ugni.

Abruzzo.

Cristiana Galasso

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