It has invested in longevity, the Franciacorta company Corteaura, and has done so since the beginning of his adventure. It was 2009, when Federico Fossati decided to abandon the accounting firm where he worked and give space to his dream of making wine. To support him, his mother Federica Massagrande, who has always supported him in the arduous path of novelty. They are two people who combine humility and tenacity, patience and strength, spontaneity and entrepreneurial ability, all qualities necessary to give shape to an ambitious project. The idea was to make wine and make it good. They wanted to do something different, which went to reflect their taste and which, at the same time, could be a different proposal for the market.
The happy encounter with the farsightedness of Pierangelo Bonomi, a winemaker with a long and prestigious career behind him, was inevitable: Federica and Federico were putting the bricks for an exciting project and Pierangelo, as good a pioneer as them, joined the proposal without thinking about it too much.
The choice fell on the land of Franciacorta, ennobled by the fine and complex bubbles of the Classic Method. We wanted to give our wines their time, leaving them the chance to develop themselves in a minimum period of refinement on yeasts that was higher than the one foreseen by the Regulations imposed for the type.
Thus began, in the cellar of Corteaura, to bottle long-lived wines, complex and fine, able to tell themselves in the patient waiting on yeasts. On the label stands a turtle, a symbol of slowness measured and measured in wisdom. The name of the Corteaura company was born, instead, from a synthesis between the adoptive land of the project – Franciacorta – and the aura of positivity that the Greeks believed was present, by nature, in each of us. Just like in their wines, which, for this reason, require the right time for express in all their beauty.
The portfolio of the winery consists of 7 labels, which range from the most immediate pleasantness of the Brut, to the complexity of the Millesimati and the Pas Dosè, without forgetting the incisive character of the Rosé, the softness of the Demi-Sec but also the velvety stretch of the Satèn. There is something for all tastes, in other words: different combinations of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes to decline over time and to try in the most disparate combinations, thanks to the combination versatility that only Franciacortas characterized by finesse can offer.
Sofia Landoni
March 2019
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