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Caseo Estate - Short
Story
Un-corking a bottle
of fine wine. A moment that symbolises celebration, adventure
and expectation of undiluted olfactory bliss. Our fondest
memories evolve from such stimulation of our senses. However,
delivering on such a promise is a considerable challenge
for today’s sprawling cash-crop vineyards but less
so for bespoke family run estates like Caseo. Our passionate
orchestration of tradition and science has unleashed truly
dramatic red wines and astonishingly aromatic whites. The
Caseo Estate’s distinguished lineage can be traced
right back to its medieval 12th century origins under Visconti
Scaramuzzi. Today its honoured owners, the Naro family,
devote 50 of their 70 hectares to growing an extensive range
of grape varieties whilst the remainder is dedicated to
cereals and cultivated woodland.
The Soil - The Vineyards
The Caseo Estate is located
on a hill sloping down from 450 to 350 metres in elevation
and due to the soil composition, the humidity and the
day/night temperature range, it is an ideal enviroment
to make top red wines and amazingly aromatic white wines.
THe Estate grows grapes typical of the Oltrepò
Pavese, such as Croatina, Barbera, Pinot Noir, Moscato,
Italian Riesling and Rhein Riesling, as well as recently
planted grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and
Sauvignon Blanc. The vines are trained with two systems:
guyot and cordon. THe organoleptic characters of these
grapes are enhanced by a short pruning, close planted
vines, no tilling of the soil and the use of limited manure.
The Cellar
The cellar was already in
use during Visconti times. Recently it was completely renovated
with an up-to-date equipment, though in the full respect
of the tradition. THe historical environments have been
allotted to the barrel maturation and to the refining processes
of the most valuable wines. The cellar presently has a 2.500
hl capacitly, of which 500 hl is in barriques and 2.000
hl in stainless vats. After an adequate period of maturation
and, for some wines, of barrel refining, all wines are bottled
in the Caseo cellar.
