VITIVINICOLA SANTALUCIA
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Indicazione Geografica Tipica I.G.T
Umbria Rosato
- Grape variety
Sangiovese 100%
- Alcohol
13,5%
- Production area
Lake Trasimeno Hills, Perugia, Italy
- Vineyard
Half-acre on a gentle slope, fully exposed to the sun, in production since 2004
- Growing system
Spurred cord
- Soil
Good limestone structure with a prevailing clay mixture
- Grape yield
2.5 tons per acre
- Wine yield
60%
- Harvest
Harvesting by hand with careful selection of the grapes
- Winemaking
Soft-press of the grapes removing the grape dregs immediately
- Ageing
10 months in steel barrels
- Quantity produced
900 bottles
- Chemical analysis
13,5 % alcohol content, total acidity 5,50 g/l, Ph 5,85
- Colour
Good flavour with characteristic freshness and slight mineral taste, pleasant to drink, long-lasting with appreciable after-taste, refined and inviting
- Taste
Delicato con fresche e fragranti note floreali e fruttate dove si alternano i profumi di ciliegia, fragola, frutta di bosco, melagrana con accenni vegetali
- Food combinations
An excellent aperitif. Wine specially appreciated with typical hors-d’oevres, soups, first courses, legumes, vegetables, white meat. Excellent with locally-caught freshwater fish such as roast perch, “tegamaccio”, tench and “regina in porchetta”
- Serving notes
After uncorking serve immediately at 12° C in a crystal goblet
- Storage
Not to be aged. Bottles are to be stored, lying down, in a cool dark place
