Spumante di Erbaluce di Caluso d.o.c.g. “CUVÉE DES PALADINS”

The Cuvée des Paladins is named after the 12 loyal knights of the great King of the Franks and later the first Roman Emperor: Charlemagne. Towards the end of 700, with the agrarian reform, he promoted a rapid renewal of viticulture fallen with the crisis of the Roman Empire. This great innovation process could have brought the Erbaluce from the Rhône Valley or vice versa have made it migrate from the Canavese up to there in the wake of the Longobard troops. A fascinating legend that deserved to be remembered with this Cuvée des Paladins. The local history of Canavese instead testifies that the production of sparkling wine was since ancient times a traditional local practice to produce small quantities of sparkling wine to be used to celebrate the moments of celebration of families. To the wine they added sugar or much more frequently must of the harvest or of the passito and this was enough to start the refermentation in bottle of an ancestral sparkling wine. Sometimes this "wine mosso" was also aromatized with some peach leaves.

The Cuvée des Paladins is particularly versatile and goes well with both elaborate appetizers, with cold cuts and cheeses, risotto with vegetables, seafood, soups and especially with fried fish and land, vegetables and herbs in tempura and fish dishes particularly tasty, such as seafood soups, caciucchi, baked fish and pan. A full-meal wine that can accompany the recipes of the most elaborate kitchens both innovative and traditional.