Asti wine

Asti Spumante (also Astiwein ) is a sweet Italian DOCG sparkling wine with a low alcohol content ( 7-9.5 percent ) from the muscat grape and originates from the wine-growing area south of the town of Asti in Piedmont. The wine gets its carbon dioxide content of the first fermentation ( Méthode Rurale ), which is terminated at the appropriate time by strong cooling down. In 1865 Carlo Gancia put forth the first Asti Spumante, after he had become acquainted with the manufacturing of champagne in Reims.

The harvest limit is 10 tonnes per hectare Beer material. The Most yield is limited to 75 %. Therefore, there is a maximum yield per hectare of 75 hl / ha. The grapes are subjected to after pressing a fractional fermentation as well as a complex filtration process, which maintains the natural high sweetness of the not yet fully fermented base wines. When Asti Spumante, the interruption of the fermentation works particularly easy because the yeasts, are suffering due to the barren slopes on which the muscatel vines grow under nutrient deficiency. In particular, nitrogen but also potassium and phosphoric missing the yeasts. By filtering the yeasts additionally bound nitrogen is removed and the fermentation process comes to a halt.

Due to the large quantities that are sold today, you verschneidet still residual sugar base wines (→ Moscato d'Asti ) in large amounts to produce a consistent flavor profile. After a thorough gelatin - tannin fining and filtration, the foam generation depends on the Charmat (also known as Cuve -Close or purely technologically Tankgärverfahren called ). At 18-20 ° C, the interrupted fermentation continues after addition of tirage liqueur and is stretched by compliance of low temperatures on at least one to two months. Only in this way the delicate nutmeg flavor can get in the wine. Upon reaching at least 3 bars, but usually 5 bar, the fermentation is stopped by lowering to 0 ° C. While maintaining the pressure of the wine is fined and cooled again to stabilize at -4 ° C for 10-15 days. After a final filtration ( or centrifugation ) the wine is drawn under counter pressure on bottles.

A finished Asti Spumante has an alcohol content of 7-9.5 percent by volume and a residual sugar of 60-100 g / l

Asti Spumante is considered to be rather cheaper sparkling wines and is available worldwide. Together with the still wine Moscato d' Asti wines represent both almost a third of the quantity of wine produced in Piedmont. Asti Spumante should be drunk young and at a temperature of 8-10 ° C.

Approved communities

In the bill of 1936 vines have been defined as belonging to the appellation in 45 municipalities: Acqui Terme, Alice Bel Colle, Asti, Bistagno, Bubbio Calamandrana, Calosso, Camo, Canelli, Cassinasco, Cassine, castagnole delle lance, Castel Boglione, Castel Rocchero, Castelletto Molina, Castelnuovo Belbo, Castiglione Tinella, Cessole, Coazzolo, Cossano Belbo, Costigliole d' Asti, Fontanile, Grognardo, Incisa Scapaccino, Loazzolo, mango, Maranzana, Moasca, Mombaruzzo, Monastero Bormida, Montabone, Neive, Neviglie, Nice Monferrato, Quaranti, Ricaldone, Rocchetta Belbo, San Marzano Oliveto, Santo Stefano Belbo, Sessame, Strevi, Terzo, Treiso, Trezzo Tinella, Vesime, Visone.

In -enactment of the 1967 and 1976 land still were added in Rocchetta Palafea, Alba, Santa Vittoria d' Alba, Serralunga d' Alba, Castino Perletto and San Giorgio Scarampi.

Herstellmengen

Produced quantity in hectoliters

In the middle of vineyards are mined annually, approximately 529,000 hl Asti Spumante at the time of 9,850 hectares, which corresponds to more than 75 million bottles of 0,7 l.