Details
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
Decanting time:
1 hour
Pairings
- Start up year: 1989
- Oenologist: Raffaele Crotta, Eleonora Charrère
- Bottles produced: 250.000
- Hectares: 35
| Name | Les Cretes La Sabla Rosso |
|---|---|
| Type | Red green still |
| Denomination | VdT |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Aosta Valley |
| Vendor | Les Cretes |
| Story | Produced by the Charrère family since 1971, it is the winery's historic wine and is today, as then, a skilful blend of red grape varieties grown in the old vineyards. Sabla means sand in the local dialect, due to the sandy composition of the soil. |
| Origin | La Sabla, Bufferia e Sazzé di Aymavilles (AO). |
| Climate | Altitude: 500-750 m. a.s.l. Western exposure. |
| Soil composition | Loose, sandy, moraine soil. |
| Cultivation system | Guyot. |
| Plants per hectare | 8,000. |
| Yield per hectare | 8,000 kg. |
| Harvest | Manually at the end of October. |
| Fermentation temperature | 28 °C (82 °F) |
| Fermentation | 8 days. |
| Wine making | Fermentation in steel tanks under a controlled temperature of 28 °C (82 °F). Long maceration (10 2 days) with daily pumping over. |
| Aging | 8 months in steel tanks. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |

