Name: Ca 'Botta Cerviero
Brand: The Wine Rack
Price: 15.50 GBP
Availability: InStock

Ca 'Botta Cerviero

Wine at a glance:

Red

Northern Italy

Corvina and Cabernet Sauvignon

Medium to Full Bodied

14.5

Slight oak flavour

A 'Super-Veneto' from Northern Italy

£15.50

£15.50 £19.00

Tenute Ca’Botta call themselves “an Italian innovative winery that specialises in making dry wines from dried grapes”. We call them a bit crazy!

Even their most basic wines are made using a technique called apassimento. After the grapes are harvested they are set out on wooden slats in a temperature controlled warehouse to allow the grapes to dry out. This concentrates the sugar and flavour - great for big full bodied wines.

However it also means it can take double the amount of grapes to make one of their wines - their accountant must have a stressful job!

Based in in Valpolicella DOC, Veneto, in the northern part of Italy, Ca'Botta is also known for combining winemaking innovations (they have developed their own patented tank Fermentino Ca'Botta®) with a mix of traditional winemaking techniques that gives exceptional balance to the wines.

A blend of Corvina: 50%, Cabernet Sauvignon: 25%, Corvinone: 20%, Turchetta: 5%

This Super Veneto wine is made similar to Amarone DOCG with the use of Cabernet Sauvignon, which adds the freshness of Cabernet tannins to the traditional Veneto wine.

Ageing is in 225l french oak barrels

The olfactory note of cherries, raspberries and forest berries is followed by a green pepper and spicy herbs. The taste of blackberries and black currant is followed by a long and complex aftertaste.