VINEYARD

Category: white, dry
Grape variety: malvasia istriana 100 %
Source vineyard: Dis Cumieris
Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte
Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)
Average planting age: 4 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha (2,428 vines/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine: 4,500 kg/ha (4,017 lbs/ac) and 0.75 kg/vine
Layout: 2.20 x 0.80 m
Area: 2.00 ha (4.92 ac) in production
Elevation: 32 m (108 ft)
Exposure: North - South
Training method: Simple guyot
Soils profile: Rather shallow, with generous gravel-pebbly texture, some clay, reddish hue due to presence of ferrous and aluminium oxides, well-drained
Harvest period: 10th and 16th September

VINIFICATION

De-stemming and crushing
Pre-fermentation cold maceration: 8 °C (46 °F)
Pre-fermentation cold settling
Fermentation: 16 ÷ 19 °C (61 - 66 °F)
Yeast: selected strains
Length of fermentation: 32 days
Malolactic fermentation: not made
Maturation: 7 months on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: end of May, 2010
Bottle-ageing: 11 months
Production: 8,180 - 750 ml bottles