VINEYARD

Category: white, dry
Grape variety: chardonnay 100 %
Source vineyard: Vie di Romans
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:6,000 kg/ha (5,357 lbs/ac) and 1,00 kg/vine
Layout:2.40 x 0.70 m - 1.90 x 0.80 m - 1.60 x 1 m
Area: 8.61 ha (21.27 ac) in production
Elevation: 31 m (105 ft)
Exposure: North - South and East - West
Training method: Simple guyot and spur pruning
Soils profile: Medium deep, with moderate gravel-pebbly texture, clay of reddish hue due to presence of ferrous and aluminum oxides
Harvest period: 6th, 7th and 10th 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: 30 days
Malolactic fermentation: complete
Maturation: 8 month on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: Mid of June, 2010
Bottle-ageing: 9 months
Production: 45,178 - 750 ml bottles, 500 magnums (1.5 l.), 70 jeroboams (3 l.), 30 (5 l.) - bottles, 2,004 - 375 ml half bottles