Rosè sparkling wine
RIOBÒ is the result of the collaboration between Vite Sparse and Bergianti Vino (Terrevive). It’s a blend of sorbara and uva oliva, which refermented in the bottle using frozen must. It’s an easy-drinking wine characterized by its freshness and wild strawberry flavor.
Why Riobò
“Three little houses with pointed roofs, a small green meadow, a thin stream: Rio Bò.” When a romantic seventy years old vineyard is added to this imaginary portrait, Aldo Palazzeschi's poem Riobò, turns into Casalpriore, Gabriele Ronzoni in San Martino Rio (Bò) and becomes real.
The collaboration – Az. Agr. Terrevive
Biodynamic and social farm, their wines are among our favorites in their area. We were so thrilled when Gianluca, head of Bergianti vino contacted us and showed us the old semibelussi vineyard in Casalpriore. What started as a collaboration, quickly evolved into a friendship.
White wine
SHERPA is the result of the collaboration between Vite Sparse and the Valdibella Cooperative. It’s a pure Catarratto fermented on its skins for seven days and aged, for eleven months, in a steel tank. It’s a Mediterranean wine characterized by its richness and a tiny hint of aromaticity
Why Sherpa
Sherpas are high altitude guides and porters who support strangers on Himalayan expeditions. Likewise, Massimiliano, Nino, Salvatore and all the people of Valdibella accompanied us to discover the territory of Camporeale. Sherpa is the incarnation of our collaboration, a wine to be pursued, sip after sip, in its climb towards an increasingly intriguing drinking.
The collaboration - Cooperativa Valdibella
The Valdibella Cooperative has been trying for many years to unhinge the social stratifications that dominate the territory by restoring dignity to farmers, fighting exploitation and promoting the reintegration of disadvantaged people into the workplace. This is why we have chosen to make in their cellars with Salvatore Zappardo's grapes.
Red wine
OPPOSTO is the result of the collaboration between Vite Sparse and Tenuta Belvedere. It’s a Croatina which fermented on its skins for fourteen days and aged, for nine months, in a grès amphora. It’s a full-bodied wine characterized by a ripe yet fresh fruity note.
Why Opposto
When Vite Sparse was still just a dream, our goal was to make a wine with low alcohol content and ready to drink. However, having to interpret the territory immediately made us change our minds, ending up making a wine that was the opposite (“opposto” in Italian) of what we had thought.
The collaboration - Tenuta Belvedere
Gianluca Cabrini, Tenuta Belvedere's owner, is a dynamic and tenacious winemaker who has bet on high-quality agriculture. His commitment to the proposing a different perspective of Oltrepò Pavese's wines is what made us fall in love with him. Opposto is the manifest of Vite Sparse and Gianluca shared vision.
Red wine - single cask
ALOE is a 2009 blend of barbera and moretto. Twenty days of maceration and 9 years in large wood. The first winemaking of Alessandro Poretti, Alo for friends, the current winemaker of Valli Unite. The elegance and seductiveness of experience, the spontaneity and vivacity of youthness.
Why Aloe
They say the Aloe plants at the tenth year of age reach the maximum therapeutic efficacy. We do not know if this is true, but this wine has undoubtedly achieved the apex of its expression of joy and taste in ten years.
The collaboration - Coop. United Valleys
The Valli Unite Cooperative has been struggling for years on recovering the territory and people, rebuilding a sincere and synergistic relationship between man and nature. An exciting story that led us to discover a hidden treasure in a barrel.