Salento Negramaro IGT 750ml Gianfranco F

'Jo' from mar Jonio, the sea that washes the coast of Manduria.
Jonico is also one of the synonyms for Negramaro, the native vine par excellence of the Greater Salento area.

WINE NAME: Jo
TOPONYM NAME: Marina
EXPOSURE: flat
ALTITUDE: 15 mt asl
ROOTSTOCK: 157/11C.
CLASSIFICATION: IGT SALENTO NEGRAMARO
ALCOHOLIC STRENGTH: 14,5% vol.
TIME OF HARVEST: mid-September
PRODUCTION AREA: Agro di Manduria in the province of Taranto loc. San Pietro in Bevagna
SOIL: Red soil
VINE: Negramaro
VINEYARD EXTENSION: 1.00 Ha
AGE OF THE VINEYARD: About 40 years old
GROWING FORM: Sapling
NUMBER OF GROWLS PER PLANT: from 6 to 8
SIZE OF PLANTATION: 1,30 mt. by 1,70 mt.
NUMBER OF HOPES: 4500 AVERAGE GRAPE YIELD PER PLANT: 800 Gr.

IN THE VINEYARD: Little use of chemicals, preferably using covering products to combat the main vine diseases, mowing of weeds, no fertilization.

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:
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
marc cap (Max T. 23-25°C), two delestages a day, after racking 24 hours in steel to remove the lees.
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
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,
without filtration and without tartaric precipitation, and after about six months of refinement it is released for consumption.