COSTA JELS THE WINE OF THE MINE

COSTA JELS

THE WINE OF THE MINE

A wine aged in the mine is not only a highly effective production technical solution to achieve the excellence of a product. There is much more. Already from the first visit to the mine, I realized that something far greater was envisaged than the above, that there was the possibility of being able to start a path that would recall ancient memories, something ethical.
As we explored the tunnels dug over the centuries by generations of souls, we felt the fatigue, the suffering, the pain they experienced in those places to allow their family members to survive. The feelings of closeness to these hero-miners but also of compassion for the conditions in which they were, have gradually grown even in reading the book that testifies to their events, a book that was kindly given to me at the end of the explorations and from which I draw the following words: “Theirs was a story full of hard work, but also full of so much humanity and so much solidarity. The "underground people" has always been in solidarity. Now people tend to forget and do not know how much sweat has wet the stones of the Bergamo mountains. Forgetting means depriving us and those who will come after us of the possibility of knowing unrepeatable values ​​and achievements. Here is the animating reason for this volume, so that the children do not forget the virtues of their fathers. "
I therefore realize the luck that has been given to me, the good fortune to be able to do something so that those dark and inhospitable tunnels inserted as wounds in the belly of the mountain could relive and with them all the people who have left a lot, even life to make them. The virtues of the fathers can be remembered by continuing to extract from the mountain, certainly no longer dusty minerals but a product that can give joy and serenity, as if it could whisper that their efforts have not been in vain and are still bearing wonderful fruits.

Alessandro Sala
COSTA JELS
CHAMPENOISE ORGANIC METHOD

The "Costa Jels" sparkling wine ages in the mine of the same name in Gorno (BG) at an altitude of 830 m.s.l.m. in the total absence of light, with a temperature of 10 ° C and a constant 95% humidity all year round. These conditions are ideal for the long aging on the yeast which lasts for no less than 5 years.
  
The mines were known and cultivated already in Roman times when the condemned to "quarry metal" were sent up here and since then, with mixed fortunes, the mining activity continued until 1982, the year of definitive closure.
There are about 230 km of tunnels and caves that continue underground.
There is no better place to allow the wine to rest in complete tranquility in a natural environment and to evolve in its long stay on the yeast.

Every detail has been studied to arrive at a unique and unrepeatable product, starting from the Bronner, Johanniter and Souvignier gris grapes, vines that naturally resist disease and that do not require chemical treatments except in particular cases.
The must without chemical residues is processed in the modern cellar of Cenate Sopra where, after fermentation, it begins its long aging process.
For about a year and a half the wine is aged in the cellar; partly in French oak barrels and partly in steel.
After the "draw" operations, the bottled wine is placed in the belly of the mountain where it will remain on the yeast for at least another five years.
After this long stop and the ideal maturation is reached, the bottles are brought back to the cellar for the "remuage", "degorgement" and "packaging" operations and then prepared to reach your table.

An all-natural route, from untreated grapes to refinement in a protected and unspoiled place to create a product that will not fail to excite you.
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