Label wines: Don Antonio Morgante
Grapes: 100% Nero d’Avola
Production area: Grotte - Agrigento
Vineyard altiude: 450/550 metres s.l.m.
Soil composition: white color calcareous with parts of clay
Training system: guyot and spur pruned cordon
Planting density: 3.500 vines /hectare
Production for hectare: 40 tonnes
Yield in wine: 65%
Year vineyards planted: 1970 /1975
Harvest period: second half of September
Fermentation temperature: 29 C°
Vinification system: skin contact for 20 days in stainless steel tanks
Malolattic fermentation: in stainless steel tanks
Maturation period: 12 month in 225 litres Allier and Troncais oak barrels
Aging before release: 7 - 8 months
Alcool content: 14,00 % Vol.
Total acidity: 5,20 grams per liter.
Ph: 3,60
Dry extract: 36,00
First vintage bottle: 1998
Bottles produced on the average in a year: 35.000
Packing: European type bordeaux bottle in 6 bottle, cases and wooden box, 1,5 liter magnum bottle and 3,0 liter double magnum both in single wooden box
Sensorial Analysis: Very concentrated red ruby color, intense fruity smells, ripe cherry , rose, sweet spices, liquorices and cocoa. The taste is quite persistent and balanced.
Glass adviced: wide crystal glass
Serving Temperature: 18 – 20 ° C.
Food Match: seasoned cheeses, roast red meat or braised and game.
vini siciliani Don Antonio Morgante