Infinitus Cahmpagen

 Argentina

Vineyard location: Rio Negro, Patagonia
Grapes: Semillon and Pinot
Vinification: “Méthode Champenoise” or “Ancestrale” (rural method).
This method consist in bottling the wine before the first fermentation is completed.
The process starts producing a “wine base” of Semillon and Pinot elaborated and fermented at low temperature ( 15°C – 17°C) with a sugar content in between 211gr and 220 gr and 12% to 13 % of alcohol.
Total acidity reaches 4 gr to 4.5 gr.
Than yeasts are added to this “wine base” before bottling manually using a temporary plastic cork as closure.
In the cellar fermentation re-starts at a controlled temperature of 12°C – 13° C during 45 to 60 days.
Once fermentation is ended the bottles are stored horizontally during 8 to 12 months.
After ageing, they undergo a process known as “riddling” (remuage in French), a gentle 1/4 rotation every day until they reach gradually a vertical position in order to remove the lees ( sediments) from the neck of the bottle.This process takes usually 16 days.
Than only the neck of the bottle will be frozen and disgorging can be realized. It is a skilled manual process, where the cup and the lees are removed thanks to the inner pressure.
A dosage (a varying amount of additional sugar) is finally added and the bottle I can be recorked.