Projects

To create sparkling wine:

1. Obtain grapes (when planting new little roots which you can find nowadays online, you will have to cure them for 3 years before you will have enough grapes to make some bottles… one plant usually can produce 10 kg or less per year… if all goes well!).
2. Harvest the grapes and press the juice (depending which type of grape and which type of wine you want, you might have to leave the crushed grapes with or without their stems macerating for several days before pressing them). We usually separate the stems from the berries and press right away to obtain the nice rosé colour; otherwise we would obtain red sparkling wine!
3. After fermentation with yeast addition the base wine will be ready by december.
4. On a cold and dry december day we transfer the still (non sparkling) wine into the bottles which can stand 7-12 atm (103-176 PSI) pressure.
5. Adding again yeast and sugar (22 g/l) we obtain the second fermentation with CO2 gas (the bubbles) entrapped. We leave the bottles untouched for at least 18 months and up to 3 years maturate on the lees.
6. Once our sparkling treasure is ready we move the bottles so as to concentrate the deposit (the lees) in the crown and it’s bidulle. Freezing the extremitiy of the bottle we can now expulse the solid deposit from every single bottle (“disgorge”) and after adding the “liqueur d’expedition” we insert the definitive cork.
7. Enjoy!