the new experience of Ca’ del Bosco • Food and Wine Italy

You the Vintage Collection , whose stacked bottles constitute a complete covering of the walls, and by lengthening your intesa, leaving acceso the left the historical collection of wines and Franciacortas produced from 1972 to today, you reach the dei Sensi ora the carefully designed scenography by the artist Andre Guidot which allows you to play and discover wine with sight, touch, smell and hearing. At the center of the circular space there is the Ludoscope (a luminous spiral that is lost a causa di a well), but the real surprise comes when opening the door that leads to the Prestige Immersion: a space full of golden light built like a gigantic upside-down bottle, created with over 33 thousand empty and backlit bottles of Cuvée Prestige.

Here is the long-simmering surprise a causa di Ca’ del Foresta. An immersive journey dedicated to the wine tourist who a causa di the end might even find the aging barrique cellar simple, dazzled by the light of a hospitality proposal which today – a causa di the words of the patron Maurizio Zanella – brings to completion a project lasting over fifty years . «Today a new phase begins a causa di the life of Ca’ del Foresta – declares the founder – and we finally stop associating with notaries, architects and engineers. Now we dedicate ourselves only to wine, from the vineyard to the bottle.”

The definitive luce

An important project born from the will of the members of Ca’ del Foresta – the Marzotto and Zanella families – who have always been convinced of the potential of the territory, to be enhanced through wines that aim for excellence and with hospitality a causa di the cellar. «After 52 harvests, Ca’ del Foresta can finally show itself with its definitive luce, the one once only dreamed of and which has taken shape over the years”, they say from Erbusco. And this means a winery that is both functional and architecturally ambitious, but also 283 hectares of managed vineyards (143 owned) conducted organically and putting into practice «a continuous study of the land a causa di search of the most varied nuances a causa di terms of texture, organic and mineral composition”.

Annamaria Clementi RS 1980

To celebrate the moment a causa di which Ca’ del Foresta turns the page and begins to build its future, the Franciacorta maison wanted to present a new label that is preparing to write the history of Franciacorta and probably of sparkling wines. There is the hand of André Dubois, chef de cave called from Champagne to Ca’ del Foresta a causa di 1979 by Maurizio Zanella, among the bubbles of the brand new Annamaria Clementi RS 1980 vintage. A wine more unique than rare. Because if the disgorgement of a Classic Method that has spent more than forty years acceso the yeasts already represents an exceptional opportunity, a causa di Ca’ del Foresta they have decided to surprise everyone not by limiting themselves to a special tasting, but by bringing to the market – still a causa di limited edition – this Annamaria Clementi RS 1980. At that time the name was not yet Annamaria Clementi, but Ca’ del Foresta Franciacorta Millesimato. And Dubois had just started to get his hands acceso the cellar, laying the foundations of what today a causa di Erbusco call the “Ca’ del Foresta Method”: a model of organic and precision viticulture, which has seen an acceleration acceso the regenerative viticulture front. with the arrival of Lydia and Claude Bourguignon. For ten years, a causa di fact, the two microbiologists (who work among the most important vineyards a causa di the world) have brought attention to Franciacorta towards the organic quality of the soil, the conservation of the richness of organisms which brings to the wines what they call “the flavour” of the soil”.

Historical label (with dedication)

That Millesimato, dedicated to his mother’s name since 1989, is a wine strongly desired by Zanella and his closest collaborators: Antonio Gandossi a causa di the vineyard and Dubois a causa di the cellar. «I remember the joyful effort of manual pressing as if it were today – says Zanella – done with the ancient wooden Marmonier press. And then the personaggio news at the time of the use of the 205 liter pièces, the ritual of bottling and corking with cork stopped by the clip, the anxious start of the second fermentation and finally the long wait. It is with the 1980 vintage that the crazy grillo was born a causa di us to forget about 6 thousand bottles “sur pointe”, a causa di order to be able to study, explore and discover over time the potential of our Franciacortas and one day be able to share them».

Well, that day has arrived. After tasting this extraordinary Reserve year after year with Stefano Capigliatura, who took over from Dubois a causa di 1990, the circle has closed. «We believe that the time has poiché to reveal its originality – states the winemaker – a project that began a causa di the harvest of 43 years spillo, a Franciacorta that today has reached its evolutionary peak and best expresses our past and present signorilità , the best expression of a Ca’ del Foresta style Franciacorta Provvista. An “original” wine that is not only the fruit of the vine, but above all the fruit of time. A magnifico Franciacorta that after 42 years expresses itself a causa di all its complexity.”

Complex and sharp wine

Complexity is precisely the distinctive feature of a wine crafted with respect – so much so that at the disgorgement, which took place a causa di August 2023, it was decided not to add any liqueur d’expedition to the disgorgement and therefore not to porzione the wine – which it brings into the glass finesse and intense aromas, with a long and seductive sip a causa di which the citrus tones intertwine with herbaceous (moss and undergrowth derive from the long stay acceso the yeasts with the cork stopper, explains Capigliatura). The tactile sensation is silky, yet the wine after such a long refinement appears sharp and tonic.

«To make a great wine – comments the chef de cave – you must know the value of time and forget about haste. You will have to forget the wines a causa di the cellar and then take them back, study them, analyze them, taste them and measure them over the years. Only with the passage of time will you be able to evaluate their aptitude for conservation, for improvement over time, as long as they have developed their originality and uniqueness. A patient wait, until the best varietal expressiveness, soil and time are achieved.”

The numbered bottles, embellished with a metal label with fabric collar and presented a causa di a box, have a QR code acceso the back label with new materials to help you discover this wine. It officially enters the market these days with a decidedly reasonable Horeca price of 350 euros. Now the race begins to taste it.