VINEYARD

Category: white, dry
Grape variety: sauvignon blanc 100 % (more French than Italian clones)
Source vineyard: Vieris
Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte
Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)
Average planting age: 15 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha ( 2,428 vine/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine: 4,625 kg/ha (4,129 lbs/ac) and 0.77 kg/vine
Layout: 2.40 x 0.70 m - 1.90 x 0.80 m - 1.60 x 1 m
Area: 8.00 ha (19.76) in production
Elevation: 31 m (101 ft)
Exposure: West and North - South
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, little waterretention
capacity
Harvest period: 1st, 4th and 5th 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: 25 days
Malolactic fermentation:not made
Maturation: 8 month on dead yeast cells
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: end of July, 2010
Bottle-ageing: 8 months
Production: 32,063 - 750 ml bottles, 404 magnums (1.5 l.), 70 jeroboams (3 l.), 30 (5 l.), 1,582 - 375 ml half bottles