VINEYARD

Category: white, sweet
Grape variety: gewürtztraminer 50%, malvasia istriana 25% and rhein riesling 25%
Source vineyard: Boghis, Vignai and Piere
Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte
Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)
Average planting age: 16 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha (2,428 vines/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine:2,180 kg/ha (1,946 lbs/ac) and 0.36 kg/plant
Layout: 2.4 x 0.7 m - 1.6 x 1 m
Area: 1.19 ha (2.94 ac) in production
Elevation: 33 m (108 ft)
Exposure: West and North - South
Training method: Simple guyot
Soils profile: Ranges from shallow to medium deep. With generous gravel-pebbly texture, sand-silt of a reddish hue due to presence of ferrous and aluminium oxides,
well-drained
Harvest period: 21st October 2006, 90% botrytised

VINIFICATION

De-stemming and crushing: Not necessary
Pre-fermentation cold settling
Fermentation: 17 °C (63 °F)
Yeast: selected strains
Length of fermentation: 65 days
Malolactic fermentation: not made
Maturation: 12 months on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: First days of December, 2007
Bottle-ageing: 36 months
Production: 752 - 500 ml bottles