Tech Notes Wine Details

By Azienda Agricola Serre

Colsenta Valdobbiadene DOCG Prosecco Superiore Dry



Technical Data

Alcohol: 11.00%

Sugar Content: 22.00 g/l

Serving Temperature: 8-10 degrees C. Please, uncork delicately

Grapes: 100% selected Glera grapes

Production Area: Steep vineyards located in Combai

Vineyards Features: Classic vineyards located in the Prosecco area on south-facing hills. The vineyards are cultivated with the characteristic double-arched cane system.

Soil: Soft, well structured, fossil-rich clay, well endowed with organic substance and neutral-alkaline pH

Grape Harvest: Last ten days of September



Tasting Notes

This sparkling wine is made from our best grapes. It is light straw-yellow colored, and it has a light froth and a fine and persistent perlage. Its flower and fruit notes recall golden apple, banana, and wisteria. Serre Prosecco has a peculiar sweetish and velvety flavour. Good as an aperitif, it can be served at the end of a meal, especially with creamy desserts.



Location

The name 'Serre' has a meaning that is closely espoused with the land. It is, in fact, the name of a location, appearing on maps, which stands for a "valley which opens and then closes." The Serre agri-business sits right within a "valley which opens and then closes" in the municipality of Combai di Miane, a small town in the Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG production district of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in the Province of Treviso. Its lands have become famous also for 'marroni' or large chestnuts harvested among majestic, century-old chestnut trees.



Vineyard Notes

The Serre farm business today manages 18 hectares of terrain, most of which are vineyards, the rest are meadows and wooded areas. The quality of the terrain is ideal for producing sparkling wines, where the average slope is 30%, and thus, the viniculture is more similar to that found in the mountains than that found in the hills. Machinery cannot access this area, so the operations are all done by hand, and materials are still moved using back baskets; the yields are therefore often limited and hardly ever amount to 130 quintals per hectare, as foreseen by the Regulations for Origin control. The terrain is a mix of clay and rock substrata. The hot summer weather, when grapes ripen, is eased by the capricious breezes blowing from the north to south across an open amphitheater down to the plains which reach the sea. The vines farmed in the Serre vineyards are the traditional, autochthonous ones that make up the grape types of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Verdiso, Bianchetta, and Perea. The farming techniques are the usual double arched cane and cappuccino for the Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG and Verdiso vineyards, which for the farming of red wines, we opted to keep the sylvoz and also introduced the guyot methods. It is the features of the terrain, which interact with the weather conditions, along with the utmost care given by the Serre wine farmers, that enable the wine to express those terroir qualities, thus making one wine better than another.

[Information provided by Votto Wines]

[Information provided by not vintage specific]