VINEYARD

Category: white, dry
Grape variety: rhein riesling 100 %
Source vineyard: Boghis and Vignai
Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte
Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)
Average planting age: 15 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha (2,428 vines/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine: 6,039 kg/ha (4,897 lbs/ac) and 1.01 kg/vine
Layout: 2.40 x 0.70 m - 1.90 x 0.8 m
Area: 0.5 ha (1.24 ac) in production
Elevation: 33 m (108 ft)
Exposure: East - West
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: 1st September

VINIFICATION

De-stemming and crushing
Pre-fermentation cold maceration: 8 °C (46 °C)
Pre-fermentation cold settling
Fermentation: 16 ÷ 19 °C (61 - 66 °F)
Yeast: selected strains
Length of fermentation: 17 days
Malolactic fermentation: complete
Maturation: 7 month on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: beginning July, 2007
Bottle-ageing: 20 months
Production: 2,819