Ombra Cuvée Brut Magnum (d2020-01)

Ombra is the earlier identity of Nicola Gatta's entry-level 30 lune bottling - the shortest-aged wine of an estate that counts lees time in lunar cycles, thirty of them here, about two and a half years. The blend is 80% Chardonnay with 20% Pinot Nero from limestone hills around Gussago and Cellatica; the US importer Ambrosi adds that the Pinot Nero comes from the second pressing of the fruit used for the rosé, and that each release rests on roughly 85% of the current vintage topped up with 15% of the previous one. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, refermentation in bottle, no fining, no filtration, no added sulphites, and no appellation claimed - labelled Vino Spumante by choice, though the vineyards sit at Franciacorta's eastern edge.

The name has since left the range: the estate sells its 30 lune wine today as Cuvée Nature at zero dosage, and the producer's own page for that wine still opens with "my Ombra" - same wine line under a new name. The Ombra presentation carried an actual dosage: Ambrosi lists 5 g/L for the 750 release it imported, and this magnum's hand-filled back label declares 7 g/L of sugar. Gatta describes the wine as an unusual brut, with fruit and sharp minerality in place of bread crust.

This is the magnum bottling, disgorged in January 2020 per the back label, which also declares 37 mg/L of total sulphur - none of it added, per the house rule.