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: 16 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha ( 2,428 vine/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine:3,662 kg/ha (3,269 lbs/ac) and 0.61 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: East - West and North - South
Training method: Simple guyot and spur pruning
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 water retention
capacity
Harvest period: 16th and 24th 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: mid of Juli, 2011
Bottle-ageing: 8 months
Production: 25,895 - 750 ml bottles, 349 magnums (1.5 l.), 70 jeroboams (3 l.), 30 (5 l.), 540 - 375 ml half bottles