Of the farm, a Castagneto Carducci, Felciaino locality 115 a
100% Petit Verdot
Remarkably heterogeneous they mainly have clayey-silty features.
90-120 meters above sea level.
The vineyards are located in a large hilly area lapped by a stream, which determines a warm, cool, ventilated temperate climate, with great excursion between day and night, favoring the cultivation and development of the aromas in the wine.
Spurred cordon, with rows that follow the natural course of the slope of the land, rides on a hill, and are oriented north-south, optimizing the lighting of the sun.
Vines every 80 cm on rows at a distance of 220 cm, 5680 vines per hectare.
Organic, and Biodynamic with the certification of Icea and Demeter, The vines are cultivated in a natural way, without chemical fertilizers, without using systemic products, favoring the fertilization of the land with the practice of green manure and with symbiosis with mycorrhizae. The treatments against downy mildew are limited to the minimum doses of copper (3 kg / ha) and sulfur, allowed in Biodynamic agriculture. The biodynamic approach induces not to trim the vineyard in June and to spray it with decoctions made by us with nettle, viscose inula and equisetum, collected in the farm.
The cultivation without forcing, in harmony with the rhythms and natural resources, determines a balanced production. The selection of the grapes and the naturalness of the vinifications, without adding chemical additives, express and enhance the uniqueness of the Bolgheri terroir in the wine.
The Petit Verdot harvest was done in two steps starting on last September and ending on the half October, by hand with transport in the cellar in small boxes.
The crushed grapes coming from the destemmed grapes, and with almost a third of whole berries, have macerated for about 15 days in steel fermenters only with the yeasts of the vineyard. The reassembling system, associated with the delestage, for the aspersion of the must-wine on the marc cap, has allowed to modulate the intensity of maceration according to the fermentative vigor.
The wine is aged in 500-liter terracotta jars. The jars, made with the Impruneta clay, have a thickness of over three centimeters and are not vitrified nor waxed. The natural porosity of the terracotta determines a constant micro-oxygenation, its egg shape dynamizes the mass of the wine and in eight months gives the wine a perfect ripeness.
Mild temperatures in the first winter, with cold days between January and February. Spring was cool at the beginning, with frequent rains, the budding of the vines was delayed, while in May the temperatures dropped significantly, delaying the vegetative restart. Then a sudden hot in June and July, with rains only at the end of the month, made the vegetative cycle resume steadily and vigorously. In August and September the weather was sunny and more stable, optimal for obtaining a good ripening of the grapes.
1200 bottles
13% – Total SO2 50 mg / liter
DOC Bolgheri Superiore
DOC Bolgheri Rosso
DOC Bolgheri Rosato
DOC Bolgheri Vermentino
IGT Costa Toscana
