Classification

Vernaccia di Oristano Doc

Grapes

Vernaccia 100% - Harvest 1991

Zone of production

Lower valley of the Tirso river, Sinis

Height

few meters above sea level

Climate

Typically Mediterranean, with mild winters, limited rainfall and very hot and windy summers

Soil

Alluvial soil, sandy, slightly clayey

Method of cultivation

Sapling plants of grown vineyards, espalier (Guyot and spurred cordon)

Yeld per hectare

4.000 - 5.000 kg

Vinification

According to tradition, in white, with soft pressing and fermentation at controlled temperature

Aging

Matured in oak barrels for about 10 years and chestnut, kept unfilled to allow to enable the development of the characteristic veil of flor yeast that produces the unmistakable flavors of Vernaccia di Oristano

Color

Golden yellow with amber highlights

Bouquet

Intense, ample, ethereal, with the characteristic note of the flowering almond

Taste

Dry and full, which lies along a pleasantly sour and bitter, hot and harmonious. Vigorous and velvety

Service temperature

10° C for aperitif, 16° C for dessert

Matching 

Delicious dessert and meditation wine and, if it is served chilled, as an aperitif. It goes well with some Sardinian sweets: seadsas, amaretti and gueffus, and it goes particularly well with the typical mullet roe (bottarga)