The cellar complex is on three levels and uses a gravity system. In the
cellars, we aim to tap the potential of every single vineyard. The grapes
are picked by hand and placed in small trays before being destalked, and
they are then allowed to fall into 30-quintal wooden vats.
Nothing is added to the bunches except for small doses of sulfur dioxide.
Once alcoholic fermentation is complete, the "wine" is taken down
to the ageing cellar, where it will mature in small barrels made from thick
wood, or in barriques (225-liter casks) or tonneaux (900-liter casks).
The ageing cellar is 15 meters deep, allowing the temperature to remain
at a constant, natural level. The wine is aged for as long as it takes for
it to reach optimum maturity, and each part of the ageing process is carried
out in accordance with our quality-control guidelines.
The bottles are filled one at a time, before being stored in a temperature-controlled
environment for a suitable period of in-bottle ageing.
N.B. We work exclusively with grapes from our own vineyards. |