Coste della Sesia (wine)
Coste della Sesia is an appellation in the northern Italian region of Piedmont for various white, rosé and red wines, which was given the status of a "controlled designation of origin " ( Denominazione di origine controllata - DOC) in 1996 , which was last updated on March 7, 2014 . The river Sesia gives it its name ; The appellation name translates as "banks of the Sesia".
Cultivation
The production area is part of a historically important wine-growing region, which is located at the last foothills of the Alps on both sides of the Sesia River in the provinces of Vercelli , Biella and Novara . There are nine DOP wine zones, represented by the “Consorzio Tutela Nebbioli - Alto Piemonte” consortium: Gattinara DOCG , Ghemme DOCG , Boca DOC , Bramaterra DOC , Colline Novaresi DOC , Coste della Sesia, Fara DOC , Lessona DOC , Sizzano DOC . The production area for the Coste della Sesia DOC is located west of the Sesia river on the territory of the municipalities: Gattinara , Roasio , Lozzolo , Serravalle Sesia (all in the province of Vercelli); Lessona , Masserano , Brusnengo , Curino , Villa del Bosco , Sostegno , Cossato , Mottalciata , Candelo , Quaregna , Cerreto Castello , Valdengo and Vigliano Biellese (all in the province of Biella).
The DOC Coste della Sesia is an appellation founded relatively late (1996) whose historical core is the DOCG Gattinara - which was created as DOC Gattinara in 1967. Furthermore, the DOC Coste della Sesia includes the areas of the traditional cultivation zones Lessona and Bramaterra. Thus, this represents a superordinate appellation that makes it possible to buy a wine that was produced on the soil of one of these three historical areas, but the comparatively stricter production rules (e.g. with regard to maximum hectare yield, alcohol content, percentage of the grape varieties to be used) has not been met, or has been pressed from grapes that come from vineyards outside of these cultivation zones, should also be put on the market as a wine of origin.
As a counterpart to the DOC Coste della Sesia there is the DOC Colline Novaresi, founded in 1994, on the eastern Sesia side .
The range includes the wines: "Coste della Sesia" Rosso, "Coste della Sesia" Rosato, "Coste della Sesia" Bianco, "Coste della Sesia" Nebbiolo, "Coste della Sesia" Croatina and "Coste della Sesia" Vespolina.
Production regulations
Prescribed grape varieties :
- "Coste della Sesia" Rosso:
- Nebbiolo (at least 50%), other unspecified red grape varieties up to 50%, maximum yield per hectare: 10 t / ha
- "Coste della Sesia" Rosato:
- Nebbiolo (at least 50%), other unspecified red grape varieties up to 50%, maximum yield per hectare: 10 t / ha
- "Coste della Sesia" Bianco:
- Erbaluce 100%, maximum yield per hectare: 10 t / ha
- "Coste della Sesia" Nebbiolo (regionally also called Spanna ):
- Nebbiolo (at least 85%), other unspecified red grape varieties up to 15%, maximum yield per hectare: 9 t / ha
- "Coste della Sesia" Croatina :
- Croatina (at least 85%), other unspecified red grape varieties up to 15%, maximum yield per hectare: 10 t / ha
- "Coste della Sesia" Vespolina :
- Vespolina (at least 85%), other unspecified red grape varieties up to 15%, maximum yield per hectare: 10 t / ha
description
(according to production regulations)
"Coste della Sesia Rosso":
- Color : garnet red, with orange-red tones with aging
- Smell : characteristic scent, fine and intense
- Taste : dry, pleasant, harmonious
- Alcohol content : at least 11 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 19 g / l
"Coste della Sesia Rosato":
- Color : light pink, more or less intense
- Smell : characteristic fragrance, fine
- Taste : dry, harmonious
- Alcohol content : at least 11 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 16 g / l
"Coste della Sesia Bianco":
- Color : straw yellow, more or less intense
- Smell : characteristic fragrance, fine, intense
- Taste : dry, harmonious
- Alcohol content : at least 11 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 16 g / l
"Coste della Sesia Nebbiolo":
- Color : garnet red, with orange-red tones with aging
- Smell : characteristic fragrance, intense
- Taste : dry, structured, harmonious
- Alcohol content : at least 11.5 percent by volume , with the addition of "Vigna" 12 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 20 g / l
"Coste della Sesia Croatina":
- Color : garnet red, more or less intense
- Smell : characteristic fragrance, intense
- Taste : dry, structured, balanced
- Alcohol content : at least 11 percent by volume , with the addition of "Vigna" 11.5 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 19 g / l
"Coste della Sesia Vespolina":
- Color : intense garnet red
- Smell : characteristic fragrance, intense
- Taste : dry, structured
- Alcohol content : at least 11 percent by volume , with the addition of "Vigna" 11.5 percent by volume
- Total acidity : at least 4.5 g / l
- Dry extract content : at least 19 g / l
literature
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon, 3rd revised edition . 1st edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
- Burton Anderson: Atlas of Italian Wines . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-444-10372-7 .
- Burton Anderson: Italy's Wines 2004/05 . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7742-6365-5 .
- Jacques Orhon: Le nouveau guide des vins d'Italie . Les editions de l'homme, Montreal 2007, ISBN 978-2-7619-2437-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Controllata (production regulations and description). (PDF) ismeamercati.it, November 27, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2018 (Italian).
- ^ Homepage of the consortium