Description

FEATURES:

Color: Ruby red tending to garnet, with good vivacity.

Aroma: Red berry fruits, dark fruit (plum), lightly spiced clove and hibiscus, cherry and raspberry.

Taste: Decisive and pleasant, with smooth tannins and a dry finish, ample and consistent body.

OENOLOGICAL DATA:

Vinification: Destemming and fermentation at a controlled temperature. Maceration 10/12 days followed by refinement with bottonage in stainless steel barrels.

Soil and Health certified wine

AGRONOMIC DATA:

Grape variety used: 100% Granaccia

Production area: Aregai - Santo Stefano al Mare IM

Altitude: 10 to 20 meters above sea level. Harvest period: end of August.

Type of soil: Calcareous-clayey.

Agronomic practices: Grassing, thinning and selection of bunches

Orientation and exposure: south. Training system: Guyot

Certification: Wine produced with low environmental impact processes - certifying body: Soil and health.

Dry red wine with an intense red color with purple edges when young, it becomes a lively ruby ​​with shades tending to garnet, after a correct refinement (3-4 years), if more refined it takes on a pale ruby ​​color with an orange rim (6-8 years ). Vinous and fragrant when young, it becomes broad, persistent with hints of small forest fruits and resins. The flavor is dry, warm, soft and velvety, with extraordinary balance and personality when it is at its peak.

Serve it and keep it

It is served at a temperature of 16 ° C, in large balloon-shaped glasses, to better appreciate the intense and high-stemmed bouquet. It gives its best in the period from 3 to 5 years, although great vintages can exceed this limit, improving the characteristics of the wine. It must be stored lying down in the lowest compartments of the cellar, at a constant temperature between 10 and 14 ° C.

The perfect match
Dry red wine suitable to accompany dishes such as juniper thrushes, jugged hare pie, truffled fillet in crust, guinea fowl with mushroom cream, partridge in terrines and slightly seasoned cheeses.
The wine with its intense aroma, combined with an extraordinary velvet, enhances and enhances the complex aromas and the compound flavors of the dishes listed.