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Tocai Grave
Printable Version |
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Town:
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San Giovanni
al Natisone (UD)
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Region:
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Friuli Venezia
Giulia
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Grape variety:
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Tocai
Friulano
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| Size of vineyard: |
10 Acres (4 Ha) |
Training of vines: |
Guyot |
| Age of vineyard: |
1980
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Altitude: |
650 ft (200 m) |
| Vines/Acre: |
1,500 (3,800/Ha) |
Yield/Acre: |
3,200 ltr (80Hl/Ha) |
Soil:
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Alluvial terrain containing
Dolomite limestone
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Exposure:
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South-westerly
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| Harvest: |
Mid September |
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| Sugar at harvest: |
21
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Alcohol: |
12,5% |
| Total acidity: |
5.2 |
Dry extract: |
19.4 g/l |
PH:
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Residual sugar:
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1.9
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| Vinification: |
Without
the skins as all white wines, using oenological methods
and state of the art equipment, which allow very soft pressing
to avoid the crushing of the pits that could add an unpleasant
bitter taste to the must. |
| Fermentation: |
Stainless Steel |
Malolactic ferm: |
No |
| Filtration: |
at bottling |
Fining: |
No
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| Aging: |
Stainless Steel |
Production: |
15,000 btls |
Bottling date:
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April 2004
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Release date:
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May 2004
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| Color: |
Straw
yellow, intense and warm. |
| Fragrance: |
Notes of
flowers and fruit at times very open but with definite
notes of almonds.
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Taste:
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A
continued sensation of the nose. Dry, intense, delicate,
balanced and full.
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| Food matching: |
Excellent as
aperitif and above all when it is combined with a
good prosciutto, but very interesting with most first courses
and delicate main courses. |
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