Molinetto - Amphora - 2021

Color: beautiful straw yellow

Composition: 100% Cortese, vineyard in Tassarolo (AL)

Category: white wine

Profile: white wine from Cortese grapes, aged in amphora for 24 months. 260 bottles.

Nose: light tropical notes of unripe pineapple, flint, dry gravel

Aroma: very complex, notes of unripe pineapple, flint, dry gravel, just hint of tropical notes

Taste: balanced in flavor, refined and long, savory. Excellent with shellfish, oysters, raw fish, aged cheeses

Alcohol content: 12.50%.

Location: south-west, altitude 250 meters above sea level

Soil: limestone and clay soils

Formation system: guyot, 4000 vines per hectare

Harvest: manual

Vinification technique: crushing and destemming of the whole grapes, short maceration of the must on the skins and gentle pressing

Fermentation: in steel vats with minimal use of sulfur dioxide

Aging: in 200-liter terracotta amphorae for 24 months

Production: 266 bottles

Alcohol content: 13%.

Gastronomic combinations: elegant with oysters, seafood, shellfish, raw fish, truffles, aged cheeses.

Tasting temperature: 10-12 °C