Semplicemente Bellotti Bianco 2024

Description

Still biodynamic white wine, 12.5% ABV, produced by Cascina degli Ulivi (Stefano Bellotti) in Piedmont. 100% Cortese, 2024 vintage. A wine born from the passion of Stefano Bellotti, a pioneer of natural wine and an ambassador for biodynamic agriculture. Manual harvest in 20 kg crates, without maceration, fermentation in 110 hl oak barrels for 6 months, without added sulfites. Aromas of flowers and white fruits. Joyful minerality and lovely freshness. A wine that tells the story of a land and a man who has made biodynamics a philosophy of life.

Details

Perfume

Aroma of flowers and white fruits.

Taste

Joyous minerality and beautiful freshness.

Serve at:

08 - 10 °C.

Longevity:

03 - 05 years

Producer

Producer

Cascina degli Ulivi (Stefano Bellotti)

From this winery

• Start up year: 1977
• Bottles produced: 100.000
• Hectares: 22

In 1977, just eighteen years old, Stefano Bellotti took over the family farm, located on the border between Piedmont and Liguria, in Novi Ligure. The farm, owned by the Bellotti family since 1930, resides within the Gavi DOCG and was used by his medical father to escape from the city. Stefano began with several crops and a risicato hectare of vines; moreover, thanks to the meeting with one of his first masters, Pietro Toccalino, a neighbour, he learnt the basics of winemaking.

Two are the crucial choices of Stefano that radically characterize everything that today represents Cascina degli Ulivi: the first is the way of viticulture, partly forced by the morphology and physiognomy of the soils, acid-ferrous clays, not generous and difficult to cultivate; the second is the ecological agricultural approach, a choice also political, of those times considered strongly anti-progressive, and therefore more difficult than ever. But over the years Stefano realized that he was not alone and began to meet like-minded colleagues, first teachers and then fellow travellers, including Alfredo Roagna, a historic Barbaresco producer, Luigi Brezza, Italy's first biodynamic farmer, and Jean-Pierre Frick, an Alsatian biodynamic producer. Today Stefano Bellotti is remembered as one of the pioneers of natural wine, as well as an ambassador of biodynamic agriculture. Read more

Piedmont

Technical Sheet

Name	Cascina degli Ulivi Semplicemente Bellotti Bianco 2024
Type	White biodynamic still
Denomination	VdT
Vintage	2024
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	12.5% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Cortese
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Vendor	Cascina degli Ulivi (Stefano Bellotti)
Origin	Novi Ligure (AL)
Soil composition	Clay-limestone and clay-ferrous.
Harvest	September, the grapes are harvested by hand in small 20 kg crates.
Wine making	Maceration: none. Fermentation in 110 hl oak barrels for 6 months. Malolactic fermentation: yes.
Aging	In 110 hl oak barrels for 6 months. Filtration: none. Clarification: natural decantation. Sulphites: no sulphites added.
Allergens	Contains sulphites