Casal di Serra 2018

Description

Straw yellow color with golden hints, to the nose it shows intense and persistent perfumes of wild flowers and aromas of yellow pulp fruit such as peach, apricot and golden apple. To the palate it’s rich and velvety with a good dose of freshness and sapidity to balance the great softness. Dry finish, persistent and intensely fruity.

Awards

Gold Decanter Medal

91 pts James Suckling

Certificates

Vinification

After a light pressing, the prime must is rapidly cooled and then goes through static decantation. For several years, some of the grapes destined for Casal di Serra are vinified using the “cold‐soak” technique, a process which favours and optimises extraction of the varietal character. Fermentation, in steel tanks temperature‐controlled to between 16o and 18°C, takes 10‐15 days.

Soil Type

The vineyards, which are between eight and thirty years old and trained on the Guyot system, are situated on the band of hillside between 200 and 350 meters above sea level, on opposite sides of the Esino valley. The soils go back to pleiocene‐pleistocene formations, and are characterised by being very deep, medium‐calcareous clay loams. The yield of the vineyards never exceeds 7 tons per hectare.