METODO CLASSICO

The Metodo Classico of Almivisi is the estate's most serious and most technically demanding sparkling wine — a traditional method production that brings the complexity and depth of bottle-fermented sparkling wine to the Eastern Venice terroir and to the estate's founding philosophy of purity, minimum sulphites, and direct control over the entire winemaking process.

The traditional method — secondary fermentation in the individual bottle, extended lees ageing, disgorgement — requires a commitment of time and technical precision that the simpler Charmat method does not demand, and produces a sparkling wine of fundamentally different character: the autolytic complexity of extended lees contact, the fine persistent perlage of bottle fermentation, and the structural depth that years of development in bottle deliver. For a producer of Almivisi's philosophical conviction, the decision to produce a Metodo Classico alongside the Prosecco is a statement about the full range of what their terroir and their philosophy can achieve.

The 45th parallel Eastern Venice terroir — with its proximity to the sea, its two great rivers, its coastal freshness and mineral soils — provides the acidity and the mineral precision that traditional method sparkling wine production requires as its foundation. Without genuine backbone acidity in the base wine, the extended lees ageing cannot produce the complexity and the balanced structure that defines great Metodo Classico.

Almivisi's minimum sulphite philosophy presents particular challenges in Metodo Classico production, where preservatives play a specific role in managing the wine through the extended bottle ageing period. The estate's commitment to applying its founding principles even in this most demanding context reflects the genuine conviction that purity in production is not a guideline but an absolute commitment.

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