Asprinio Brut | I Borboni

DENOMINATION: Asprinio Brut VQS 
TYPE: sparkling wine
GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Asprinio
ORIGIN: Italy, Campania
AGEING POTENTIAL: 1 year
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 6-8° C
GLASS: medium sparkling wine goblet
ALCOHOL: 12% vol.
FORMAT: 75 cl

THE WINE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICS

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NOTES BY OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 brilliant straw yellow with greenish reflections, persistent and continuous perlage;

👃🏻 the nose has clear citrus and floral notes with hints of lemon peel and delicate spices;

👄 on the palate it is dry, warm, soft, harmonious and decidedly balanced.

FOOD PAIRINGS

This Asprinio is fresh and fragrant. It prefers fresh, light and territorial dishes. Perfect with eggs, savoury pies, appetisers, fried fish and even sushi.

WINE-MAKING AND REFINEMENT

This Asprinio Brut is a sparkling wine with a typically territorial face, interpreting and enhancing the most classic characteristics of this indigenous Campania grape variety. Harvested when fully ripe, this grape maintains a freshness that is perfect for creating sparkling wine bases. A sparkling wine vinified with the Martinotti method, i.e. by refermentation in autoclaves of the base wines. The grapes come from old vines cultivated according to the ancient alberata aversana method, already dear to the Etruscan peoples. Exploiting its nature as a climbing liana, the vine is raised using tall poplar trees as support. The plants, which are still free-standing thanks to the sandy soil, climb with their shoots so high that the grape harvests are made with long ladders. A piece of winegrowing history that has miraculously survived to the present day. Alcoholic fermentation in steel vats for 15 days and fermentation according to the long Charmat (or Martinotti) method, with resting in autoclaves for 8 months.

YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR...

its fragrance.

ORIGIN

TERROIR

We are in the province of Caserta, home of Asprinio. An area that was once forgotten but which today, thanks to the skilful work of wine growers, is yielding excellent results in terms of wine production. Many producers, in fact, by innovating and diversifying their cultivations, have started a recovery effort, even of historical vines. Cradle of many indigenous vines, the most important and rare is undoubtedly Asprinio. The clusters of this wine are small, medium compact and winged. The berries are small, round and yellowish green in colour. Ripening takes place between the end of September and the first ten days of October. The climate is continental, the soils mostly clayey.

WINERY

I Borboni is an important winery for the valorisation of the thousand-year-old tradition of Asprinio di Aversa, saved from extinction since the 1980s. The winery is now located in the historical centre of Lusciano and consists of a house built on a tuff cave. The asprinio vine, which has a history stretching back thousands of years, is cultivated on free-standing vines according to the alberata system, i.e. 'marinated' to the tall poplars.

Harvesting, strictly manual, therefore requires heroic efforts with the use of the typical 'scalillo', a long, narrow ladder. The harvested grapes are taken to the characteristic tuff caves for the production of white wine and, today, also sparkling wine. The wines of the I Borboni wine cellar have become a symbol and reference point for Asprinio di Aversa, whether vinified still or sparkling.

Love for the territory, dedication and sacrifice are the values that have enabled the recovery and safeguarding of the vine and its history, leading to the institution of the DOC in 1993. These labels offer precious evidence of territorial traditions, already known in ancient times, which risked being lost forever and which, fortunately, have been preserved thanks to the work and effort of producers like the Numeroso family.