• Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005
  • Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005
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Avignonesi

Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005

Red dessert wine dessert wine

  • Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005
  • Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005
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Avignonesi Tuscany
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Denomination Vin Santo di Montepulciano DOC
Size 0,375 l
Alcohol content 12.5% by volume
Area Tuscany (Italy)
Grape varieties 100% Sangiovese
Aging 10 years in “caratelli”.
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Description

"This wine has already aged for more than a decade when it is launched on the market, yet is has an incredible capacity to refine further in the bottle, without altering its unique characteristics."
Ashleigh Saymour

Awards

  • 2005

    97

    /100

    Wine spectator is the most influential wine guide on the internet.

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Perfume

Perfume

Rich and concentrated with envelloping aromas of Mediterranean herbs, citron, plums, fruit cake, star anise and a long-lingering, nutty finish.

Taste

Taste

This sweet wine reveals new, surprising sensory experiences with every sip. A wine suitable for long ageing in the bottle.

Serve at:

14 -16 °C.

Longevity:

15 - 25 years

Sweet red and/or dessert wines

Producer
Avignonesi
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1974
  • Oenologist: Ashleigh Seymour, Matteo Giustiani
  • Bottles produced: 750.000
  • Hectares: 169
When in 1377 Gregory XI moved the papal seat from Avignon to Rome, some French families followed him to Italy, one of them, probably for simplicity, began to be called "Avignonesi".

Avignonesi consists of four wine-producing estates: Le Capezzine, I Poggetti, La Selva and La Lombarda. In total they comprise 225 hectares of open ground, 109 ha of vineyards and 3 ha of olive groves. Read more
Production area: Tuscany
Tuscany
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Desserts

Name Avignonesi Vin Santo di Montepulciano Occhio di Pernice 0.375L 2005
Type Red dessert wine dessert wine
Denomination Vin Santo di Montepulciano DOC
Vintage 2005
Size 0,375 l
Alcohol content 12.5% by volume
Grape varieties 100% Sangiovese
Country Italy
Region Tuscany
Vendor Avignonesi
Origin Valiano di Montepulciano (SI)
Cultivation system Guyot.
Plants per hectare 2,564 vines per hectare (1,025 vines per acre).
Harvest The grapes have been hand-picked from the best vineyard parcels and places in small, vine leaf-coated bins.
Wine making The grapes are laid out for 6 months on straw mats in pressed and the must is transferred in “caratelli” (50-litre oak casks) for a slow, natural fermentation with the aid of an indigenous yeast known as “madre”.
Aging 10 years in “caratelli”.
Year production 2500 bottles
Allergens Contains sulphites