Origin |
Agro Manduria in the province of Taranto. Altitude 98 m s.l.m. |
Climate |
Little use of chemicals in the vineyard, preferentially using hedging products to fight the major Grapevines infected by GY vines, mowing weeds, no watering and no fertilizer. |
Harvest |
Mild drying the grapes on the vine, harvested by hand in plastic crates with careful selection of grapes, dump trucks transport in isothermal. |
Vinification |
Table sorting, stripping, soft pressing of grapes, maceration in stainless steel vat of 70 hl, skin contact must be three to four weeks, control the temperature of the hat of marc (maximum temperature 23-25 °C), two per day delestage . After racking 24 hours of steel to remove the gross lees and now in French oak barriques 50% new and 50% in one step. |
Ageing |
After about 9 months of aging in wood, the wine, without the use of fining, no filtration, no tartaric precipitation is bottled. After six months of aging in the bottle is sold. |