SFERA in collaborazione con Frecciarossa "Rosso" NV Oltrepò Pavese Lombardia
SFERA in collaborazione con Frecciarossa "Rosso" NV Oltrepò Pavese Lombardia
1000ml bottle
12% abv
REGION: Oltrepò Pavese
GROWING AREA: Various vineyard plots in the commune of Casteggio
FARMING: Certified-organic by Valoritalia # 673
VINEYARD: 4.5 Ha
ALTITUDE: 240 m / 787 ft SOILS: Red clay
VARIETIES: Uva Rara (30%), Barbera (30%), Pinot Nero (15%), Riesling Renano (15%), and Croatina (10%)
VINE AGE: 25-30 years old
VINE TRAINING: Guyot
HARVEST DATE: Last week of August
YEASTS: Native
FERMENTATION: Fermentation together; 8 days on the skins, with a wetting of the cap twice a day. No clarification or filtration.
MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION: Yes
SULPHUR: 60 mg/L total added
ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 1,000 cases
A light red with more substance than many of its peers, SFERA ROSSO is a top quality organic wine from Oltrepò Pavese in Lombardia, Italy. The fruit is an amalgamation of Uva Rara, Barbera, Pinot Noir, Croatina, and Riesling, all co-fermented and lightly macerated. This particular version has layers of fruits ranging dark to light red, each contributing to a fruit-complex glass of red at a bargain price. Sfera Rosso chills well, but is perhaps ‘more’ as an ambient offering and hence an all year-rounder.
From the Alps to the Mediterranean, SFERA is a collaboration with small certified-organic farmers to bottle litres in limited runs. Turf the same-same ‘glou glou’ that is on repeat everywhere and welcome these accessible, diverse wines of place, purity and variety. Wunderkind Alto Piemontese enologist Cristiano Garella gives his gift to this extraordinary suit of wines.
A slightly chilled down liter bottle with a crown cap is just the thing for an apertivo or an impromptu dinner. We’ve been searching for the right PortoVino producer for Italian liters for a while. We knew we wanted with buckets of low alcohol deliciousness, yet not in that international glou-glou style where the soil, grape, and terroir gets washed out.
Sfera’s at once terroir-driven, but also an interesting take on liters, and bottling wine in general. As Sfera says on their quirky site: Cosmic Verve in a Grounded Italian Liter…From the Alps to the Mediterranean. Sfera collaborates with multiple small certified-organic farmers to bottle liters in limited runs, and are keen to give the producer credit by clearly putting the winery’s name and providence on the back label.
This all means that the producers change, but front labels don’t. Another constant is that the wines are naturally made, and fall into certain guidelines that are lab tested before and after bottling. It’s a win-win, small certified organic producers get to do a fun liter project, and we get to explore Italy.
These are great introduction to natural wines, grape varieties, and growing areas. Check out Sfera Litro’ site for a catalog of all their bottlings, including the future ones on deck.
Our project was born in 2020. We collaborate with Artesanal producers from all over Italy. Our wines represent different Terroirs in Italy. We like to be simple: Sfera Bianco, Sfera Macerato, Sfera Rosato, Sfera Rosso. We use 1 Liter bottle with crown cup.
The main winemaker is Cristiano Garella who makes sure that any wine is created following a common approach: low intervention, low alcohol, low sulphites and low sugar.
Every winery is organic certified. We like to be considered as Italian Organic Table wines to share with friends and family in a easy, fun and relaxed environment.