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Colour: intense ruby red with garnet reflections
Perfume: intense ethereal bouquet, with scents of underwood fruits and empyreumatic with roasted hazelnuts, milk chocolate and vanilla.
Taste: it has a very complex, harmonious taste with a good balance between acidity and tannin making it very pleasing when drunk with a persistent aftertaste reminding of the scents.
Gastronomy: it can be combined with important meals such as grilled red meat, game or seasoned cheese.
Service temperature: Approx. 20° / 22° C.
Storing: at room temperature.
Production area: area of Firenze hills, Chianti Classico area.
Hamlet: Greve in Chianti
Height: 250 meters above sea level
Exposure: South-West
Position: Hilly area
Soil composition: Clay medium-textured soil
Grape: Sangiovese 80 % Merlot 20 %
Training system: Spurred cordon
Plant density: 3.900 plants/hectare (1,579 an a)
Plants medium life: 10 -15 years
Grape yield per hectare : 4000 kg /hectare
Harvest: by hand
Vinification: fermentation is made in steel vats; the wine is in contact with the skins for about 15-20 days, with pumping-over, cap plunging and break-up twice a day.
Fermentation temperature: 28° approx.
Malolactic fermentation: in wood barrels
Aging and refinement: in 225 lt. Barriques for 12 months. The barrels are made of French Central Massif oak.
Av. Bottle fining: 6 months
Alcoholic volume: 13,5 %
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