Marine – Favorita Colli Tortonesi – 2016

This wine is dedicated to the two Marinas in our family:  Marina Coppi, Francesco’s mother, and the  grandmother of Marina Bellocchio, Francesco’s daughter, who was born on the eve of our first grape-harvest.

• Area of production: the grapes come from the nearby “Gabetto” vineyard and an old vineyard in the Madonna locality which is in the nearby village of Carezzano.

• Harvesting: to increase the sugar and aromatic concentration, harvesting takes place around ten days after the grape has reached its maximum ripeness when the grapes are slightly
  over-ripe (late-harvesting). The grapes are hand-picked, in crates, during the cooler early morning hours to favour the preseservation of the intensity of their aroma.
• Vinification tecniques:  soft pressing of the whole grapes and the cold straining of the must; alcoholic fermentation takes place slowly at an approximate temperature of 15°C. After the completion of fermentation, the wine is transferred and does not undergo malolactic fermentation.
• Refinement: the wine matures for roughly six months on its own sediment in steel refrigerated tanks and acquires bouquet and body thanks to the manual “batonnage” process. Bottled in the month of April, it completes its refinement for a further three months.

• Color: intensely straw-coloured.
• Bouquet: fine and intense with great personality having distinct notes of rennet apples, peach and meadow grass.
• Palate: full, round and balanced, smooth and persistent.
• Best served: 12°C.
• Best served with: risottos, fish-based pasta courses, crustaceans, Montebore-stuffed fried anchovies while it is also excellent with hop-shoot omelettes and goat’s cheese.

• Made from Favorita (Vermentino) grapes.
• Fermented in stainless steel tanks.
• Aged in steel refrigerated tanks and the bottle.
• Aged for 6 months in the steel tanks and a further 3 months in the bottle.

• Grapes: uniquely Favorita.