IL SANGIOVESE
TECHNICAL FILE
Type of wine: Red wine from organic farming.
Denomination: Romagna DOC Sangiovese Predappio.
Location of the vineyards: Fiumana di Predappio (Forlì, Italy).
Altitude: 250-300 m a.s.l.
Soil type: Calcareous yellow clay soils.
Vineyards characteristics: Vines of 2002, with 4.500 plants per hectar, spurred-cordon training.
Grape variety: 100% Sangiovese.
Harvest: Manual, in 15kg cases, in the second week of September.
Yield: 1,5 kg per plant; 5.000kg / hectare.
Vinification: The different clones are harvested and vinified sepa- rately. Spontaneous fermentation carried out by indigenous yeast, and temperature-controlled maceration in stainless steel tanks. Skin maceration lasts 18 days followed by the malo-lactic fermentation, without clarification or filtration.
Ageing: 70% in stainless steel tanks and 30% in concrete tanks for 6 months and minimum 6 months in bottle.
Annual production: 32.000 bottles.