Bibi Graetz Bollmatta Sparkling Rose – 750ml

Bright red fruits, succulent stone fruits, and a kiss of citrus dance with wildflowers, toasted bread, and melon in the effortless, elegant sparkling Bollamatta from Bibi Graetz. Bollamatta, or crazy bubble in English, is a rare Sangiovese sparkler, and this wine balances its juicy fruits with bracing acidity as it fills the mouth with tiny, persistent perlage. This sparkling wine is a mono-varietal Sangiovese crafted from the green harvest grapes for the estates Testamatta and Colore wines.

Bollamatta is our sparkling sangiovese, realised with the green harvesting of the old vineyards, 50-80 years old dedicated to Testamatta and Colore production. In fact, the thinning process of the bunches is done slightly late in order to have the perfect concentration of sugar to realise a sparkling wine. Moreover, it also a process of recovering all these bunches, generally thrown away.

Once the harvesting is done, we destem and a very soft press the berries. Then we leave the skins with the juice to decant for 4-5 hours, in order to extract aromas and colour. The fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature. The prise de mousse second fermentation is obtained by natural fermentation in autoclave using the wine left in contact with its lees. This process is longer than usual, 5-6 months, therefore, this sparkling wine is classified as a long Charmat method.