Vie di Romans Friuli Isonzo D.O.C. Vieris Sauvignon 2008 Collezione Millesimi

Description

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: 20 years
Vine density: 6,000 vines/ha ( 2,428 vine/ac)
Yield per hectar and per vine: 4,000 kg/ha (3,568 lbs/ac) and 0.67 kg/vine
Layout: 2.40 x 0.70 m – 1.90 x 0.80 m – 1.60 x 1 m
Area: 9.42 ha (23.27) 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: 30th August and 6thSeptember 2018
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: 14 – 18 days
Malolactic fermentation: not made
Maturation: 10 months on the lees
Clarification: non-agent natural in steel
Bottling: 31st July and 1st August 2019
Bottle-ageing: 8 months