Ca Del Vent Franciacorta Pas Opere Blanc de Blancs 2015 GODOT

In 1994, we established Cà del Vént willing to make our own wine instead of delivering grapes to the local collective winery (where small farmers with no equipment bring/sell their grapes).

In 1996, we got the first 5 barrels of red wine from autochthonous varieties, made just for our consumption, but already made with great determination. The lack of specific and technical equipment was the reason of simple and rather crude operation: the pressing of the grapes was made by hand with sleeves and in the garage, fermentation and maceration occurred in stainless steel tanks borrowed by a old winemaker from the neighborhood, aging happened in barrels in the cellar and bottling was made by ‘falling “with a small rubber tube. Likely due more to luck than actual ability, the first wine Clavis 1996 turned out to be amazing. A full-body wine, with tannin, very clean and with great longevity.During those years expectations were not disappointed, despite some problems with alcohol excess in 1997 and turbidity in 1998. We felt ready to convert the garden and the basement of the house into an attempt of a real winemaking company. In 2000 thus we expand the vinification room and we buy two small vineyards in the surrounding.In 2001 we buy a small pneumatic press and we vinify our first 2000 bottles of Franciacorta. At the first tasting our opinion is less positive than it was with the red, the Franciacorta lacks elegance and the flavour of wood is too clear and heavy.In 2006, a little bit more experienced, the property reaches 6.5 hectares and we begin to study the soils ending in 2011 with the detection of 11 micro-areas (cru / land unit). This year (2013), after a long and hard work of restoration of the original dry stone walls, we are planting a further 1 hectare of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in one of the most historical vineyards of the municipality of Cellatica, kept fallow for decades.Our size is currently 7.5 hectares ( 40-45000 bottles).

(Clavis 1996, by the way, is still developing in the cellar where it was transformed into wine and it does not show any signs of old age at all..) – Winery Note