2005 harvest (the seventh year)

Zone of vines: Hills of Montefalco, 400 m.s.l."CAMPO PIPPARELLO"
Exposure: EAST-SOUTHWEST
Type of soil: Clay
Meteorological conditions: Summer Weather balanced with low rainfall and dry temperature.
Judgement of the year: "Very BIG!"
Care of vines: trained on wire, with about 3,000 plants for hectare
Yield for hectare: 65-70 quintiliters
Date of harvest: second week of October
Grapes:60% uve Sangiovese, 25% uve Montepulciano,15% uve Sagrantino
Degrees of Alcohol: 13,0%
Harvest:by hand, with transport of grapes in small steel containers
Fermentation:on the skins, grapes separated from stems the same day they are harvested.
No.of days of fermentation and maceration: 42
Aging of wine: 12 months in steel, 24 months in large 20 hectoliter oak barrels, 12 months minimum in bottle
Characteristics: dry and soft, aromas of vanilla, juniper, and minerals
Recommended pairings: pasta, red meat, cheese
Total no of bottles: 9.520 75,0 cl bottles (all numbered individually).

Note: Bottling took place at the end of September 2008, at about thirty-six months after harvest. Later, after a rest period of approximately twelve months in the bottle, began making deliveries. The year 2005 may be considered of "High quality" to have formed in excellent weather conditions, "rich" in the organoleptic composition, "matures slowly and, as always, in the absence of any stabilization force, "ready" to four years, has all the characteristics to be drunk at best, even at 15/20 years.

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