
Perfume

Color

Taste
Serve at:
14 -16 °C.
Longevity:
05 - 10 years
Decanting time:
1 hour

- Start up year: 1928
- Oenologist: Mamete Prevostini
- Bottles produced: 180.000
- Hectares: 30
It is a territory whose streets over the centuries have been traversed by peoples and civilizations which over the decades have left a contribution very recognizable today through the traditions, the culture, the typical products.
Around the most important of these, the wine, has created a large community that still carries the same production processes then using what is universally recognized as one of the largest vineyards in the world, Nebbiolo (here called chiavennasca). the history of the winery began over seventy years ago when Mamete Prevostini begins, was the first post-war period, to produce wine from local grapes within the Crotto family, typical of Valchiavenna natural cavity formed in prehistoric times.
In 1988, however Mamete nephew, the current owner, took over the company's reins, and after a series of tests lasted about eight years signed his first real production in 1995, becoming within a decade a wine draft exceptional value. Today, all the wines are aged in a different way, according to unwritten rules but that are renewed year after year. Elegance, refinement, power for a great interpretation of Nebbiolo in Valtellina. Read more


Name | Mamete Prevostini Nebbiolo Rosso di Valtellina Santarita 2023 |
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Type | Red still |
Denomination | Valtellina Rosso DOC |
Vintage | 2023 |
Size | 0,75 l |
Alcohol content | 13.0% by volume |
Grape varieties | 100% Nebbiolo |
Country | Italy |
Region | Lombardy |
Vendor | Mamete Prevostini |
Origin | The Rosso di Valtellina area, in the districts of Berbenno, Castione Andevenno and Tirano |
Climate | Altitude: 450 - 650 m. a.s.l. Exposure: South. |
Soil composition | Sand (70%), silt (30%), limestone, high content of granite rock, rarely clayey. |
Cultivation system | Guyot |
Plants per hectare | 3600 |
Harvest | From October 3. |
Wine making | After a gentle destemming the grapes, lightly pressed, are sent in stainless steel containers in which they undergo a 7-day maceration followed by the alcoholic fermentation. |
Aging | After the pressing the wine undergoes the malolactic fermentation, partly in stainless steel and partly in wood, in which it remains for a further 10-months period of aging. The process is completed with 6-months refinement in bottle. |
Total acidity | 5.4 gr/L |
Allergens | Contains sulphites |