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bottle packaging to the wine itself. Memorie di Vite wines are all produced with
indigenous yeast and with a limited control in the cellar as the Piero likes the terroir to
have the central part of the stage. This range requires a pretty focused hard-working
mind set and is exhausting to manage as it comprises from 8 to 10 different wined
depending on the vintage.
Top tier Intrecci di Vite (it means Vine's Interwovens) comprises 4 different wines (2 of
them blend together different varieties coming from different island's wine corners,
while the other 2 wines link island varieties with Italian mainland ones).
THE WINES IMPORTED BY STEEP HILL: We have decided to keep things simple and at
the moment Steep Hill imports 4 wines: one sparkler, two wines of the Òrriu range
(Vernaccia and Cannonau) and the Carignano from the Memorie di vite tier.
Z
"Z" - Sparkling on the lees. Since 2012, the estate has
produced an original 100% Vermentino product: a non vintage
sparkling wine on the lees made with the ancestral method
by re-fermenting in the bottle the dry base Vermentino, with
the addition of the following year's fresh must. The result is
interesting, as the yeast presence gives us "two wines in
one". It is an alternative way of winemaking at the same time
recalling the old school peasant tradition.
The hand harvested Vermentino grapes proceed from the Alto
Campidano area (Oristano province) and, more specifically,
the vineyard dates back to 1985 and is trained with the Guyot
system on soil composed of clay, sand, with a lot of skeleton
originated by oxidianic decomposition. Vinification: soft
pressing, static decantation, tapping, fermentation in steel
with neutral yeasts at 18-20° Celsius. The wine matures almost a full year in steel vats
until the refermentation which takes place in September of the following year by adding
5% to 10% of fresh must so to capture carbonic bubbles. The added must creates a pied
de cuvee and in 48 hours the wine is bottled in order to complete its process. Z is an
unfined, un-disgorged ancestral style wine topped with a crown cap.
This is declassified monovarietal table wine, therefore it hasn't been submitted in order
to receive DOC or IGT status. According to EU body of wine laws, the grape variety
cannot be written in the front label.
Hence the owners decided to name the wine Z referring to the Z present in Frizzante
(fizzy). The vintage camouflage is in the lot number which contains the year.
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Vernaccia Valle del Tirso 2019 (Orriu sulle bucce). As all the Òrriu family wines, this
comes from a vineyard planted in 1999 in the Arborea Marrubiu area, not far away
from Quartomoro's cellar. Soil's nature is very similar to the vineyard of the Z wine
(alluvial with a marked component of san d and clay). Hand harvested grapes are soft
pressed and must is cold decanted and then tank fermentation takes place at 18 - 20°C.
Ageing process keeps going in tank with occasional lees stirring. The wine is release at
the end of the following spring presenting always a nice drinkability and intensity.
The third wine presented is Cannonau di Sardegna DOC 2018 Òrriu: the Cannonau from
crumbled granitic rock with volcanic origin and traditionally harvested to create
elegance and nuanced tones. The vineyard is pretty young (2004) but greatly evolvingView entire presentation