Salento Negramaro IGT 750ml...
'Jo' from mar Jonio, the sea that washes the coast of Manduria.<br />Jonico is also one of the synonyms for Negramaro, the native vine par excellence of the Greater Salento area.<br /><br />WINE NAME: Jo<br />TOPONYM NAME: Marina<br />EXPOSURE: flat<br />ALTITUDE: 15 mt asl<br />ROOTSTOCK: 157/11C.<br />CLASSIFICATION: IGT SALENTO NEGRAMARO<br />ALCOHOLIC STRENGTH: 14,5% vol.<br />TIME OF HARVEST: mid-September<br />PRODUCTION AREA: Agro di Manduria in the province of Taranto loc. San Pietro in Bevagna<br />SOIL: Red soil<br />VINE: Negramaro<br />VINEYARD EXTENSION: 1.00 Ha<br />AGE OF THE VINEYARD: About 40 years old<br />GROWING FORM: Sapling<br />NUMBER OF GROWLS PER PLANT: from 6 to 8<br />SIZE OF PLANTATION: 1,30 mt. by 1,70 mt.<br />NUMBER OF HOPES: 4500 AVERAGE GRAPE YIELD PER PLANT: 800 Gr.<br /><br />IN THE VINEYARD: Little use of chemicals, preferably using covering products to combat the main vine diseases, mowing of weeds, no fertilization.<br /><br />HARVEST: Slight withering on the plant, hand picking in plastic crates with careful selection of the bunches, transport by truck with isothermal container. IN THE WINERY:<br />sorting table, destemming, soft crushing of the grapes, maceration in 70 Hl stainless steel vats, must skin contact for three to four weeks, control of the temperature of the<br />marc cap (Max T. 23-25°C), two delestages a day, after racking 24 hours in steel to remove the lees.<br />in stainless steel to remove the coarse lees and immediately in French oak barriques 50% new 50% single passage. Pressing of the marc with a vertical hydraulic press<br />with a stainless steel cage. Daily batonnage until the first racking. After about 12 months of maturation in wood, the wine is bottled without the aid of clarifying agents,<br />without filtration and without tartaric precipitation, and after about six months of refinement it is released for consumption.<br />
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€53.00