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Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva Cenere – AMIATA… I VINI DEL VULCANO
AMIATA… I VINI DEL VULCANO producer’s sheet
General informations
- Denomination: Montecucco Sangiovese Riserva Docg Cenere
- Type of vine: Sangiovese in purity
Vineyard
- Production area: Loc Montegiovi Castel del Piano (GR) Toscany
- Impland density: 5000 stumps per hectar
- Return per hectar: 60ql of grapes
- Growing system: Cordone speronato basso (folding of the grapes bound together at 90°)
Wine processing
- Vinification: Hand harvest with selection, fermentation at a controlled temperature and maceration for at least 30 days
- Aging and refinement: at least 48 mmonths in 25 hl oak wood barrels. At least 12 months in bottle
Characteristic
- Colour: intense ruby colour with garnet shades
- Bouquet: bouquet of excellent elegance with traces of currant and blackberry matched to well balanced spicy traces of leather and liquorice finalize the olfactory frame with tertiary in great evidence
- Taste: Great structured taste with consistent and fine toothed tannins, but greatly refined. Typical earth traces of the vineyard enrich a warm and winding sensation that is completed by a long persistence with a slight acidity witch gives verve and freshness to the whole
- Pairing: first dishes with game or braised meat sauce. Roasted and stewed game or lamb meat. Long maturing cheeses
- Serving temperature: we advise to serve our wine at a temperature of 16/18°C
