Vinification

White grapes selected with Pierre-Antoine Crettenand and are Petite Arvine, Hermitage, and Pinot Blanc grapes vinified separately. Cold pellicular maceration in pre-fermentation for about 18 hours at controlled temperature. All fermentations took place in French oak barrels. Aged in barriques for about 9 months. Final blending after aging and resting in bottle for 3 months.

Color
Deep golden yellow, greenish highlights.

Perfume
Intense and complex, aromas of exotic fruit and quince, hints of roasting.

Taste
Soft and fresh attack, good structure, balanced, good aromatic persistence.

Aging: 5 to 6 years.

50% Petite Arvine, 25% Hermitage, 25% Pinot Blanc

The history of our company begins in 1880, twenty-six years before the first Merlot vines imported from the lands of Bordeaux were planted in Ticino.

Those were the years when phylloxera, the deadly vine pest, was raging in Europe. But they were also the years, those at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which the foundations for modern viticulture were being laid in Ticino, thanks in part to the creation of the Ambulant Chair of Agriculture: too many plantations of American grapes were being uprooted, replacing them with native varieties, new grape varieties were being experimented with-such as Merlot, in fact-, the first social wine cellars were being established…..

It was in this historical context that the Chiodi company was founded in Ascona, which today-along with Carlevaro of Bellinzona, acquired in 2009-is one of Ticino’s leading companies in the production and trade of wines and spirits. Originally, the Chiodi family brewed beer, resold imported wine from Italy, and operated the historic and eponymous Grotto that stood by the lake in the Moscia area between Ascona and Porto Ronco.