{"product_id":"bellotti-bianco-cascina-degli-ulivi-natural-wine","title":"Bellotti Bianco 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eBellotti Bianco is 100% Cortese from Cascina degli Ulivi's estate vineyards in and around Novi Ligure, in the Gavi zone of southeastern Piedmont. The vines are trained in Guyot, planted in iron-rich red clay soils — the Terre Rosse belt that runs through Novi Ligure and Tassarolo — and average around 20 years of age. The estate holds organic certification from CCPB and biodynamic certification from Demeter, and has farmed without synthetic inputs since the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cellar, the fruit is destemmed and spontaneously fermented using indigenous yeasts, split between stainless steel tanks and large old oak vats. The wine then ages for six months or more in an 11,000-liter oak cask. No sulfur is added at any point. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered, sealed under crown cap — a signal of its intended everyday-drinking character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2017 vintage in Piedmont was shaped by an exceptional April frost event that struck during an early vegetative cycle, reducing yields across the region. The wines that survived tend to show concentrated, precise fruit. In the glass, Bellotti Bianco shows a straw-yellow color with notes of white flowers, ripe pear, honey, and a mineral slate edge. The palate is light-bodied with Cortese's characteristic bright acidity and a slightly textured, lightly nutty finish from the lees aging in large wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wine sits outside the Gavi DOCG — Stefano Bellotti declassified his wines to Vino Bianco following a bureaucratic dispute with appellation authorities in 2013, choosing his biodynamic farming practices over the DOC framework. It is imported to the US by Louis\/Dressner Selections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cascina degli Ulivi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34560726040728,"sku":"BELLBIAN17C","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/cascina-degli-ulivi-bellotti-bianco-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1630817956","url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/products\/bellotti-bianco-cascina-degli-ulivi-natural-wine","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}