Chardonnay 2005

Südtirol/Alto Adige

Description:

This wine is pale yellow in colour with green reflections. it has the pleasant aroma that characterises 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.

Varieties: 100% Chardonnay 

Vineyard location: Kurtatsch (Cortaccia) and Margreid (Magrè)

Soil composition: 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 - 85 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

Alcohol content: 13.0% by vol.

Total acidity: 5.9 g / litre

Residual sugars: 3.7 g / litre

Dry extrakt: 21.8 g / litre