Summer has arrived. The time has come to uncork wines that are drinkable and low in alcohol, like this white refermented in the Colli Piacentini bottle
It is noon and the grandmother is hungry. On the table filled with bottles – Lodovica Lusenti produces an infinity of labels – a piece of really good cheese comes out, so much so that, at the appearance of the casing alone, even the dogs will raise their ears. Shortly thereafter, we will move to a trattoria (including my grandmother), the ones that make the joy of truck drivers and those like me, in Milan, usually eat a salad in an anonymous bar. Towards the end of the lunch, even an accordion appears and my visit to the cellar, which should have lasted a couple of hours, takes the form of a reunion with old friends, even though we only know each other since morning.
Since that time I have a wine of the heart, with which I inaugurate thearrival of the warm season. The wine is declined in the feminine – it is called Malvasia Emiliana – and resembles so much to those who produce it. Lodovica is a bubbly woman, full of brio, genuine and welcoming, of other times: the wine that best represents her could only be a white man as it was once, a refermented in the bottle, of those to be uncorked to a picnic, after letting it cool in the waters of a stream. The Malvasia Emiliana is born on the Colli Piacentini, in the area of Ziano, in Valtidone, on hills exposed to the north-west, with clay-loamy soils, veined here and there by a bit of limestone. It is made with organic grapes of Malvasia di Candia aromatica, a typical Piacentino grape variety which, as the name suggests, is generous in aromas: it ranges from wisteria to yellow fruit, citrus fruits and they blend well with the flavor and the refreshing, pleasantly sour note.
Above all it is a wine that does not exceed 11.5% alcohol and is easily drunk even on the hottest days. Before untapping it, follow Lodovica's advice e shake the bottle to put back the yeasts in suspension: in the glass you will have a cloudy wine, but even more full of taste.
Why now: little alcohol, easy to drink and lightness: it is a perfect white for summer recipes.
As did: after vinification in steel, the wine is bottled with its own yeasts and 10% of sweet Malvasia must; this will trigger the refermentation in the bottle which will bring the wine to be sparkling.
To combine with: savory pies, omelettes with vegetables, stuffed vegetables, rice salad, fried fish, cold cuts and fried dumplings.
Serve it at: 6-8 ° C.
Price: 12 euros.
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