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“Baron, Your son is crazy,
he's removing all the Trebbiano to plant tendrils that bear
little wine”: that's what the old employees of the farm
told, cetween the shock and the doubt, to Baron Antonino.
The son Nicolo', now manager of the Estate, in the wake of
the innovating spirit of his great grandfather Don Toto',
was already aiming to the quality at the expense of the
quantity, in absolute and apparently paradoxical
countertrend.
One of these tendrils that bear little wine is the Inzolia,
from which it's obtained an important Wine dedicated to the
great aunt Giuseppina.
A great Wine, dedicated to a Great Lady, strong and with a
resolute character as She was.
The SOGNO DI DAMA (Lady's
Dream) white comes from espalier vineyards having a density
of 3400 plants per hectar. The pruning is done by gujot.
100% Insolia elevated in barriques.
Important wine, dedicated to the daughter of Don Toto',
Giuseppina, from whom it inherites the determined and
sensitive character.
Strongly aromatic, it reveals pleasantly the match between
the barrique and the varietal aromas.
The color is deep golden, like Sicily's wheat in July.
It is delicate to the taste, warm and persistend, with
amplitude out of the ordinary.
Those values derive from a careful selection of grapes grown
in espalier vineyards with guyot pruning.
The fermentation starts in steel vats at a temperature of
16°C and ends in barriques, where it ripes for ten months. |
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Technical card for Sogno Di Dama White
Classification:
Typical Geographical Indication Sicily (IGT)
Type: white
First year of production: 1998
Bottles produced: 5000
Grapes: Insolia from aged tendrils
Implantation year: 1985-91
Height: 70 meters
Soil type: abundante frame with high
lime presence; average dough origined from gypsum-sulfur strata.
Yield per hectar: 4.0 tonnes
Culture system: espalier, guyot and
spurred cordon
Density: 3330 plants per hectar
Time of harvest: September 4-15
Production: statical settling of the
must after press-stripping and soft pressing; inoculation with
selected yeasts, fermentation and refining in barriques for 8
months.
Fermentation tank material: french oak
cask
Fermentation temperature: 19 °C
Time of bottling: April-May
Fermentation duration: 18 days
Alcoholic grade: 12.5°
Aging: up to 4 years
Maximum pleasure age: from 1 to 3 years
Color: deep golden
Smell: delicate and elegant with
varietal aroms and ripe fruit perfectly matched with the sweet
vanilla of the barrique, it never ends to astonish for the 'extent'
of the aroma, extremely wrapping, never grave.
Taste: full, delicate, perfectly
rounded, excells for the gentleness and pleasantness of taste. Clear
inkling of tosted peanuts in backtaste
Best served at: 16°C
Matching: loves high cuisine dishes
with strong and fat taste. Extremely nice even out of meals, alone
or in good company |
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