Description
Wine with ancient origins, blessed with a distinctive personality, cited for the first time in a historical document from 1447. This wine is made with best-quality grapes, selected from our Bramaterra parcels in the townships of Villa del Bosco and Brusnengo.
Details
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour

Pairings
Meat
Game
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork
Producer
Tenute Sella
From this winery
- Start up year: 1671
- Oenologist: Riccardo Giovannini
- Bottles produced: 60.000
- Hectares: 23
The soft seat is one of the oldest wineries in business today. The family produces wine Lessona Sella, from mid-600. Even today the company maintains its original size craft, historically devoted to small-scale quality products. The wines produced from the approximately 20 ha of vineyards, of which about 80,000 bottles a year. winemaking techniques and the same technology found in the cellar, are constantly updated, always check the capacity to ensure the best results in terms of clean, pleasant aroma and definition of the wines. According to the philosophy Sella the word "classic " means in full compliance with, and indeed the enhancement of the most authentic of the terroir and grape varieties, preferring non-invasive work, such as to lose touch with the essence and the uniqueness of these wines.
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Name | Tenute Sella Bramaterra 2016 |
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Type | Red still |
Denomination | Bramaterra DOC |
Vintage | 2016 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 13.0% by volume |
Grape varieties | 70% Nebbiolo, 20% Croatina, 10% Vespolina |
Country | Italy |
Region | Piedmont |
Vendor | Tenute Sella |
Origin | Upper Piedmont, on the vineyard slopes of the Bramaterra estate in the municipality of Villa del Bosco |
Climate | Altitude: 300-350 m. a.s.l. Exposure: Southwest. |
Soil composition | Soils with an acid ph made up of porphyritic sands of volcanic origin, red-brown in colour. |
Cultivation system | Classic Guyot. |
Harvest | From mid-September to mid-October. |
Wine making | Destemming-crushing Classic fermentation in stainless steel tanks with pumping over and rack and return. Average length of maceration: 30 days for Nebbiolo and Vespolina, 16 days for Croatina Malolactic fermentation with simultaneous inoculation. |
Aging | 28 months in 10 hl Slavonian oak casks. |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |