VINEYARD

Category: white, dry
Grape variety: friulano 100 %
Source vineyard: Dolée
Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte
Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)
Average planting age: 10 years
Vine density:6,000 vines/ha (2,428 vines/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine:4,455 kg/ha (3,977 lbs/ac) e 0.75 kg/vine
Layout: 1.60 x 1.00 m
Area: 2.02 ha (4.99 ac) in production
Elevation: 31 m (101 ft)
Exposure: East - West
Training method: Simple guyot
Soils profile: Rather shallow, with generous gravel-pebbly texture, sand-silt of a reddish hue due to presence of ferrous and aluminum oxides, well-drained
Harvest period: 24th 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: 25 days
Malolactic fermentation: not made
Maturation: 7 months on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: end of July, 2010
Bottle-ageing: 9 months
Production: 8,193 - 750 ml bottles, 200 magnums (1.5 l.)