Quattrocento 40 lune Extra Brut Magnum (d2020-01)

Quattrocento is Nicola Gatta's 40 lune bottling - forty lunar cycles on the lees, about forty months, one step up the ladder that runs from Cuvée Nature at thirty moons to Molener at ninety. The blend is 70% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Nero vinified white, from limestone parcels around Gussago and Cellatica at 400 to 650 metres, with roughly 10% of perpetual-reserve wine aged four to five years folded into the base. The name is the altitude: quattrocento, four hundred. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, no added sulphites, and no appellation claimed - Vino Spumante, Extra Brut.

This is the magnum, disgorged January 2020 at 3 g/L, with 33 mg/L of total sulphur.