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 espite its name and its geography, Lower (Basso) Monferrato has slopes exceeding 700 meters in altitude and is situated to the north of Upper Monferrato. And it is without question the Piedmontese district where winemaking is most extesively practiced. It is in that area, on the gentle and sunny hills around Casorzo in Asti province and in some communes in Alessandria province, that Malvasia di Casorzo is produced.That delicious wine is the heir of an old international tradition, for the ancient and famous grape that bears the name Malvasia originated in Greece and the Aegean islands. And it is now grown in the major part of the Mediterranean countries, on the island of Madeira and in South Africa and California. Its wine, which was once widely known in English as Malmsey, is sweet and appealingly golden in color. The wine of Madeira is, perhaps, the most famous today. In Italy, both white-grape and red-grape subvarieties of Malvasia are cultivated. The grapes yield table as well as sweet wines, depending upon the area where they are grown and the way they are processed. Among the range of wines, the Malvasia di Casorzo d'Asti is one of the most highly esteemed and it is made by a complicated process. The grapes are fermented until about a third of their sugars have been transformed into alcohol. The must is then racked, filtered and clarified. A second slow fermentation is then initiated and the refrigerated wine is repeatedly subjected to filtration and centrifugation. The process is completed after one year and the wine is bottled.
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Consorzio Tutela Vino Malvasia di Casorzo d'Asti
Viale Pininfarina, 15
14035 Grazzano Badoglio (AT)
ITALY
phone: (+39) 0141/925136
fax: (+39) 0141/925282
email: info@vinumetc.it
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