Cervaro della Sala Umbria Igt 2021 75 cl Castello della Sala - Antinori

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The Wine: The name Cervaro comes from the noble family that owned Castello della Sala during the 14th century, Monaldeschi della Cervara. A blend of Chardonnay grapes and a small quantity of Grechetto make a wine that can age over time and represent the elegance and complexity of this unique estate. Cervaro della Sala is one of the first Italian white wines to have malolactic fermentation and aging take place in barriques. The first vintage of Cervaro to be produced was the 1985 vintage.

Vinification: The fermentation cellars have been constructed so as to take full advantage of the principal of gravity flow and allow the management of the grapes and the period of skin contact without any sort of mechanical action deriving from the pumping of the crop or must. The picking takes during the very first hours of the morning in order to bring to the cellar fully healthy grapes which have not been stressed by high daytime temperatures. The must produced by a four hours period of skin contact at a temperature of 50° Fahrenheit (10 °C) is transferred by gravity flow into stainless steel decantation tanks where they lose their impurities before going into 60-gallon oak barrels. Here they ferment and then are put through a complete malolactic fermentation. After five months in oak, the wine goes back into stainless steel to be blended with the Grechetto, which is fermented on its own without any contact with oak. The Cervaro della Sala, after bottling, is then given a further several months, pre-release period of bottle aging in the historic cellars of the Castello della Sala.

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