Alto Adige Spumante Extra Brut 1919 Riserva 2016

The 1919 Riserva, dedicated to the year of the winery’s foundation, is the most important and advanced sparkling wine of Kettmeir. The grapes come from the most suitable vineyards at high altitudes where they enjoy a particularly cool climate and are subject to strong temperature variations. The sparkling wine is conceived as a blend of 3 base wines: a part of oak-aged Chardonnay which gives softness and creaminess, a part of steel-fermented Chardonnay, which gives freshness and a part of Pinot Noir which gives structure. A long aging on the lees harmonizes the three souls in an irresistible sparkling wine.

After the harvest the grapes are refrigerated for one night. After that part of the Chardonnay ferments and ages for a few months in barrique. The other part of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, on the other hand, after pressing, each ferment in steel and age in contact with the fine lees. Finally, the blend of the three base wines is composed, yeast and sugars are added and it is bottled for the second fermentation in the bottle according to the traditional method. The sparkling wine ages on the lees for 5 years.