The wines are the Novara hills wines that tell the story, discussing traditions ... full-bodied, robust, decided by the smell and the deep red color with aging acquire softness and balance. Wines that in these areas have ancient traditions and fertile land thanks to the favorable microclimate, due to the proximity of Monte Rosa, the Sesia Valley to the mountains and to a soil composed of clay, sand and gravel of glacial origin.
Since 1894, the Cantina Ca 'De' Santi keeps the secrets of these great wines.
Our center is the Nebbiolo grape, probably already known by Pliny the Elder as confirmed by some news written in 1200. But Nebbiolo, as we know it, is a relatively young wine, dating back to over 150 years ago, as the years of the Italian State. It is not a coincidence.
The history of this wine is closely linked to the emergence of a united Italy, and to a particular character: Count Camillo Benso di Cavour.
The story goes that the Savoy, aspiring Italian Royal Family and in constant competition with the French cousins, were always looking for distinctive signs, such as could not miss a great wine can do well with red Bordeaux. And they found him, so much so that Cavour described the wines of our hills, "Cotesta wine possesses in a high degree what makes the quality of the wines of France and generally lacking in our own: the bouquet looks like the bouquet of Burgundy which for certain varieties delicious as the Clos Vougeot and Romanet enjoy the first fruits of all the wines of France. Now therefore remains proved that the hills of Novara can compete with the hills of Burgundy, and that in the struggle to triumph it is only necessary that owners diligentino the manufacture of wines, and rich and elegant wolverines that establish the reputation. I would honestly be able to cooperate in this crusade wine. "
And so, as you threw the basis for unify Italy, Nebbiolo wine from "ugly duckling" turned into a beautiful swan from garnet red color.
Wine a little more than cheesy, unsuitable aging with strong residual sugar, half of the nineteenth century, Nebbiolo become that fantastic dry wine, full-bodied, robust, long-term aging, which is the Gattinara.
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