WINE CELLAR
The winery represents the place of transformation from grapes to wine; ours consists mainly of concrete tanks where fermentation and later aging take place.
It is also our custom after maturation in wood to have further elevation take place in concrete tanks before bottling.
Cement tanks have always been present in our winery and we have never stopped using them performing annual maintenance when necessary to benefit from their positive characteristics on the wines.
The main properties of cement are three: resistance to heat transfer, moderate porosity and neutrality.
In fact, cement is an excellent thermal insulator, ensuring a constant temperature and preventing sudden changes or thermal shocks that could have negative and degenerative effects on the wine.
As far as moderate porosity is concerned, on the other hand, cement is halfway between wood, which is more porous, and steel, which is less porous; it guarantees a minimum passage of air and oxygen, which is fundamental for a correct, not premature, slow and controlled, maturation of the wine.
And finally, its neutrality; cement is a neutral material that, unlike wood, does not yield aromatic substances to the wine such as to change its bouquet of aromas and its aromatic heritage.
Wines preserved in concrete tanks retain the maximum expression of aromas and properties of the terroir and the grape variety of origin. Freshness, cleanliness, and authenticity are preserved.
The wine cellar is divided into three areas: the fermentation area where the transformation from must into wine takes place, the area of refinement in cement tanks and an area called the barrel cellar where refinements for the crus in amphorae and barriques take place.
Our French oak barriques have been studied and tested for many years to respect the wine, for us wood is intended as a source of wine stabilisation never above it but always alongside it to support it as the years pass.
The Wine Cellar has always been the place where the concept of terroir acquires even more meaning, where the encounter between man and the fruit of the plant takes place.