Chardonnay 2009
ALTO ADIGE / SÜDTIROL - DOC
Description:
This wine is pale yellow in colour with green reflections. It has the pleasant aroma that characterizes the variety, with exotic fruit notes and a trace of meadow flowers. Slightly spicy, well-structured and full in the mouth, it has a lingering finish on the palate.
Serving suggestion:
This white wine makes a good companion to all sorts of appetizers, as well as asparagus dishes, seafood, poultry, pork or veal.
Grape varieties: 100% Chardonnay
Vineyard location: Kurtatsch/Cortaccia and Margreid/Magrè.
Soil: Chalk gravel moraine soil in the hills in Kurtatsch, sandy alluvial soil in the area of Margreid.
Growing system: Pergola and guyot; 3,500 – 7,000 vines / hectare.
Yield: 70 - 75 hl / hectare.
Age of vines: Till 30 years
Vinification: Fermentation in stainless steel tanks between 20 – 21° C; till the bottling 4 months on the fine lees in the tank aged.
Receptacles: stainless steel and concrete tanks.
Alcohol content: 13% by vol.
Total acidity: 6.0 g / litre
Residual sugars: 2.9 g / litre
Residual sugars: 2.9 g / litre
