Brachetto Secco VS. Verduno Pelaverga.
This video wants to talk briefly about these two wines made with Brachetto grape and Pelaverga grape.
Both of them are aromatic and very floreal, both of them realy enjoable and easy drinking. bothe of them can macth with a lo of food and sometime quite, let’s say difficult food to be match with.
We start with Brachetto secco from Matteo Correggia in Roero. We stay concentrate in the area regardng Brachetto. In General only few producer make Brachetto Secco (in a 100% dray way). It is made by a particular bunch of grape called “Brachetto Lungo” while in Acqui for Brachetto the bunch is different. Brachetto Lungo is more aromatic then the other one.
Thsi wine is made in a very simple and traditional way in maceration and fermentation on skin for 6, 8 days in steel vat and sty there till the bottling. Very fresh wine, with a bit of tannins and a tyical nose of roses.
The soil in Roero is mainly sandy (75%) then a bit of silt and clay.
The other grape and wine we are comparing with Brachetto is Pelaverga. The grape name is Pelaverga and the wine name is Verduno Pelaverga.
Again a very aromatic and floreal wine.
In thsi video we are considering Pelaverga from Fratelli Alessandria in Verduno Municipality. Pelaverga is traditionally present in Mailny in Verduno and used to be also in La Morra and Roddi. All these villages are in Langhe, Barolo area.
The History of Pelaverga:
Verduno Pelaverga is a very ancient cultivar, present since time immemorial in the territory of the municipalities of Verduno, La Morra and Roddi d’Alba. In the past it was planted together with Barbera and Nebbiolo, but starting from the seventies the winemakers began to cultivate it and vinify it in purity to obtain this wine with an absolutely particular taste.
The first notes relating to Pelaverga in Verduno can be found in the statutes drawn up at the end of 1400, in which we read of certain “black grapes” clinging to small and delicious apples, fruit trees that at the time served as living supports for the cultivation of the vine .
As often happens in the history of viticulture, Pelaverga also has its own legend and this tells of a priest from Verduno, Blessed Sebastiano Valfrè, who at the beginning of the 1700s brought with him a bunch of Pelaverga cuttings from the Saluzzo area. It is said that in the cellars of the castle of Verduno King Carlo Alberto carried out his oenological experiments on Barolo grapes and that thanks to Verduno Pelaverga life at court was anything but boring! In fact, from attending court onwards, the aphrodisiac effect has always been inextricably linked to this wine: either for its high drinkability and spicy tones or for the ironically evocative name.
Over time, the cultivation of Pelaverga becomes sporadic: small vineyards here and there, a few rows in the midst of Nebbioli and Barbera grapes, but in the bottles there is a wine often obtained by blending with other grapes.
Since the seventies, producers are convinced that they have an important product for its originality. In this way we begin to vinify in purity and the local restaurants are committed to promoting this “rare wine”, which is highly appreciated today. Meanwhile, the Municipality of Verduno, owner of a land, authorizes its transformation into an experimental vineyard and the plot is then made available to the Faculty of Agriculture of Turin and Milan, in order to carry out scientific research on wine. The project is mainly led by Luigi Veronelli’s Permanent Seminar which prepares the planting of a vineyard with thirty clones and vines in order to prepare the basis for obtaining selected wine material for the creation of future vineyards. It should be remembered that some researchers from the Institute of Arboreal Cultivation of the Universities of Milan and Turin took part in this operation with the help of the Experimental Institute for Viticulture of Asti.
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Chapters:
00:00 Logo
00:05 Intro of this series “Dome’s Wine Bites”
01:02 Brachetto VS. Verduno Pelaverga. Brachetto Secco Introduction
02:49 Verduno Pelaverga Introduction
05:33 Conclusion
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Some usefull website:
– Matteo Correggia Winery:
– Consorzio di Tutela del Roero:
– Fratelli Alessandria:
– Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani:
– D&P Selelzioni Srl:
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