FRIMAIO VENDEMMIA TARDIVA

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FRIMAIO "VENDEMMIA TARDIVA"

The Frimaio Vendemmia Tardiva is a sweet white wine produced only in the best vintage by a grapes muscato. The grapes must have submitted to gradual withering and attack from noble Botrytis on the same vite. Why this name, so reminiscent of a calendar month of the French revolutionary era? The idea to give such name to this wine derives from a double motivation: from one side the awareness to create a particular and different product," revolutionary" inside our business context, justly centered on the Barbaresco; from the other side because the day when we picked up such dry grapes was November 21 st 2001 that it exactly corresponded to the" primidì" (first day) of the revolutionary month of Frimaio. A special feature of this product, in addition to low yield grape / wine (15Hl/ha), the fact that each label is different from another since all are decorated with abstract designs executed by Enrico Dellapiana.

VINEYARD
Altitude: 230 - 410 m. s.l.m.
Exposure: different expositions according to the production area.
Soil: white marl clayey- calcareus, alternated by sand.
Year of planting: 1972 - 2004
Training system: Guyot

Grape Variety: Moscato

VINIFICATION
Harvest: second or third decade of November (with small variations depending on the weather).
Fermentation: a controlled temperature (18-22°C) with use of selected yeasts
Ageing: in steel tank and partly in old barrique for a variable period according to the evolution of the wine.


WINE
FRIMAIO VENDEMMIA TARDIVA shows an intense golden yellow color. The fragrance is sweet and fruity, with hints of rose, candied fruit, pears, apricot jam, peaches in syrup and intense notes of Muscat raisins. The mouth is full and mellow, fat and persistent with a well balanced acidity Intense sweet notes, combined with notes of almond, intrigue and fascinate.

NOTES
First Year of Production: 2001.
Serving Suggestion: cakes and biscuits, cakes of corn, but especially with mature cheeses, with a rind or veined cheeses and foie gras.
Serving Temperature: 8°-10°C.

 
 

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