2000 harvest (very balanced year, BEAUTIFUL)

Zone of vines: Hills of Montefalco, 400 m.s.l., location Pagliaro
Orientation: EAST-SOUTHWEST
Type of soil: Clay
Care of vines: trained on wire, with about 2,800 plants per hectare
Yield per hectare: 50-60 quintiliters
Date of harvest:2nd week of October
Grapes: 100% SAGRANTINO
Meteorological conditions: 'BEAUTIFUL' season, very balanced, equal parts of rain and sun
Degrees of Alcohol: 14,6%
Harvest: by hand, with transport of grapes in small steel containers
Fermenation:on the skins, with the stems separated the day the grapes are harvested.
Number of days of fermentation and maceration: 39
Aging of wine:21+3 months in steel, 12 months in large oak barrels, 12 months in bottle
Type of wood: French oak
Characteristics: dry, supple, full, aromoas of vanilla, dried prunes and figs, blackberries
Recommended pairings: savory and gamy red meats. Also goes well with pasta and is wonderful with crusty tarts with prune or apricot preserves.
Price per 75,0 cl. bottle in Italian enotecas:€'db 60,00/75,00
Total bottles: 14.100 75,0 cl. bottles (all individually numbered) and 150 Super Magnum 300 cl. bottles (all individually numbered).


Note: By choice,we bottle our wines (our household tradition at the end of September each year, just before the harvest begins. The 2000 vintage was bottled on September 25th, 2003. After about 9 months of aging in the bottle, away from light and sound, the first bottles were released for sale in the spring of 2004. For the health and optimal flavor of this particular wine, we recommend that even after light transport, the wine be allowed to settle for a minimum of 15 days. It should be drunk at 18°-20°C and allowed to breathe for a few hours before drinking. As with all of our wines, we do not use artificial stablilizers at any point during the vinification process. Our wines are truly ALIVE, they are left to pursue their true and natural cycle of maturation, so when pouring, it is common to find some sediment at the bottom of each bottle. The rich natural composition of the grapes, along with the slow maturation process, continuing for all the years the wine is left to age in the bottle in the proper conditions, lead us to believe that this wine will continue to improve and can age for up to 15 years from the initial harvest date.