Soldera Case Basse boasts a truly limited and exclusive production, the result of passionate work aimed at creating great wine through completely natural winemaking processes.

Orange and refined color, bright and noble. On the nose, the scents are complex and evolved, ethereal and characterized by hints of berries under spirits, crushed dried flowers, enamel and ash.

The taste is very fine and velvety in tannic texture, silky and particularly long in persistence. Very elegant closing.

Suitable for accompanying red meat or game dishes, like all great red wines it is wonderful to sip on its own during important meditations.

WHAT IS A GREAT WINE ACCORDING TO GIANFRANCO SOLDERA

A great wine is distinguished by harmony, elegance, complexity and naturalness.

It means balance and proportion, finesse, multiple sensations of scents, of tastes. It means uses of healthy, ripe, processed grapes, following the natural process, without the addition of chemicals, dyes, preservatives or other substances not found in grapes (oak tannins, etc.).

A great wine gives us satisfaction, a sense of well-being, a desire to drink it again; it breeds and grows conviviality and friendship. It is unique, rare, typical, long-lived. In it we recognize the microterritory, the vineyard where it was born. The wine from the Intistieti cri for example, is different from that of the Case Basse vineyard, also very close by.

A great wine is not replaceable because it has unique characteristics, like any work of art. of the 1989 vintage I did not sell a single bottle, because I did not feel that wine was up to my usual level of quality.

A great wine is rare, at the top of a pyramid of some 20 billion bottles produced worldwide each year. No more than 50-60,000 can make it to the top.

A great wine is long-lived: it must improve, at least in its first two decades, and give different sensations over time. It is the only edible natural product that can last longer than a human’s lifetime.

Certainly Harmony, Elegance, Complexity, Naturalness, Typicality, Uniqueness, Rarity, Longevity are values that greatly elevate the price of a wine. After all, any product with these characteristics has very high costs.

Beauty and goodness require time, experience, and considerable investment.

I produce an average of 15,000 bottles a year. But I drastically reduce the number if the vintage, due to bad weather season, is not up to the mark.

Out of 30 vintages, 27 were excellent-a record. The best, historical one is 1979.

Wine is still and always subjectivity: the same bottle may be worth 500 euros to one person and not even 1 euro to another.

– Gianfranco Soldera

Consumption tips

The recommended serving temperature for Soldera wine is between 17 and 18 degrees Celsius.

Another trick to best appreciate the characteristics of Soldera wine is to keep it in the bottle, without decanting it, and appreciate its evolution in the hours that follow. In the case of recent vintages, it will be sufficient to uncork the wine just before the tasting.

A great wine goes with any great food, without limitation.

Soldera wines derive their uniqueness from the history they are protagonists of, from the rows to the bottle.

Exceptional raw materials, a favorable environment and careful curation are the ingredients of an extraordinary wine that can go with any food born of the same assumptions, created by equally respectful hands.