Mirco Mariotti - Smarazen Pet Nat Bianco dell'emilia NV 750ml (12% ABV)

Beach vines! Beach wines! The unique Bosco Eliceo growing area has select
cru vineyards - ultra 100 year old vines on native rootstock - that lie on Adriatic’s shores, and Mirco Mariotti is the long time curator of these historic vineyards. Combine the raw material, along with a local tradition of making frizzante metodo ancestrale wines, and you got yourself something fun but also deeply part of the land and terroir. The locals often give the lees a shake before drinking.

5ha estate, vines are bizarrely located at -1m / -3 feet elevation , soil is 89% sand, 7% clay, 4% lime.

Extremely old vines. Almost 80 years old vines (planted in 1952),
and ultra 100 year old vines on native rootstock (piede franco). Some vines
grow on the web-mother of all training systems: Propaggine.

fun, clean, and refreshing. cool yellow fruits, sea salt, medium bodied, gentle sparkle, dry finish. only 800 cases produced.

region: Emilia Romagna, Itay

varietal: 70% Trebbiano Romagnolo and 30% Malvasia di Candia [non
aromatica].

style: bubbly (ancestrale method)

farming/cellar: practicing organic, first fermentation in tank with native yeasts and then second done in bottle with addition of grape must from same year. 20 days fermentation, 18°C without temperature control, 1 day on the
skins. no malo. low so2. unfiltered.

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