VINEYARD

Category: white, dry

Grape variety: tocai friulano 100%

Source vineyard: Dolée

Geographical area: Friuli Isonzo Rive Alte

Place: Mariano del Friuli (GO)

Average planting age: 21 years

Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha (2,428 vines/acre)

Yield per hectare and per vine: 5,700 kg/ha (5,085 lbs/ac) and 0.92 kg/vine

Layout: 1.60 x 1.00 m

Area: 2.02 ha (4.99 ac) in production

Elevation: 31 m (101 ft)

Exposure: East-West

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

Harvest period: 8th, September 2020

VINIFICATION

De-stemming and crushing

Pre-fermentation cold maceration: 8 °C (46 °F)

Pre-fermentation cold settling

Fermentation: 16÷19 °C (61-66 °F)

Yeast: selected strains

Length of fermentation: 14 days

Malolactic fermentation: not made

Maturation: 9 months on the lees

Clarification: non-agent natural in steel

Bottling: 22nd July 2021

Bottle-ageing: 8 months