Wine De Stefani, “Stefen 1624”, Veneto IGT, 2016

Introduction

Stunning red wine “Stefen 1624” is a landmark for the winery De Stefani, because it is named after the ancient names of the genus. In ancient documents found 1624 family name De Stefani designated as Stefen. Create wine from grapes Martsemino, which is cultivated by the Venetians in the area of Refrontolo from the XV century. Following an ancient tradition, after harvesting the best selected berries are dried and tested maceration for 20 days. The fermentation process is slow to give the wine a noble taste and aroma. At a certain stage of grape skin is removed, and fermentation continues in small oak barrels. Extract of wine made in the same barrels for 36 months, another 18 months the wine spends in the bottle. Because of its density and complexity of the wine “Stephen 1624” The ability to develop in the bottle for 50 years!
In 2010, “Stephen 1624”, 2005 was recognized as the second best red wine Italian version of the annual publication of the best Italian wines from the wine expert Luca Maroni and got 96/100 points.

Here is the fourth generation Italian family De Stefani with great love and passion involved in the cultivation of vines and produces great wines. During this time, greatly enhanced ownership economy, updated methods of work in the vineyards. Today there are only organic methods of work, short trimmed vines annually green berry picking and does not use any irrigation systems. All this leads to the fact that the vines give very low quality crop that is necessary for the production of thin and fine wines “premium” class, which is famous for the family De Stefani. Wines of De Stefani can be found in all the most important wine guides in Italy, such as the “Gambero Rosso-Slow Food”, “Italian Sommelier Association”, “Veronelli”, “Espresso” and “Luca Maroni”. The wines are imported by various companies working with the best restaurants, hotels and boutiques in more than 20 countries on four continents.